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Who bills 17003?

17003 is the CPT code for: Destruction of precancer skin growth, 2-14 growths. In 2024, 20,340 providers billed 17003 19,708,714 times, with an estimated $90.1M paid by Medicare.

$6.35
2026 PFS national rate (office)
20,340
Providers billing it (2024)
19,708,714
Services billed
$90.1M
Est. Medicare paid
The fee

What does Medicare pay for 17003?

Medicare's 2026 Physician Fee Schedule national rate for 17003 is $6.35 in the office setting and $1.67 in a facility. National amounts before geographic adjustment — your locality's rate differs slightly.

Office (non-facility) rate$6.35
Facility rate$1.67
Fee schedule2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

What Medicare actually paid per service in 2024, on average: $4.57 (observed payment across all settings and modifiers — not a fee-schedule rate).

The list

Who bills 17003 the most.

The top 5 billers nationally, ranked by 2024 Medicare service volume.

#ProviderSpecialtyLocationServicesEst. Medicare paid
1Artur Henke, MDDermatologyRoseville, CA122,664$772K
2Eric Lewis, M.D.DermatologyBeverly Hills, CA32,794$191K
3Richard Arasi, MDDermatologyWoodstock, GA22,499$105K
4Christopher Nelson, M.D.DermatologySt Petersburg, FL22,364$106K
5John Walczyk, M.D.DermatologyManhasset, NY20,229$128K

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The breakdown

Where 17003 gets billed.

Top states by volume

Florida2,534,009 services
California2,478,028 services
Texas1,314,273 services
New York815,650 services
Arizona701,579 services
North Carolina692,516 services
Virginia599,419 services
Georgia587,862 services

About this code

CMS descriptionDestruction of precancer skin growth, 2-14 growths
Code typeCPT (Level I HCPCS)
Providers billing it (2024)20,340
Services billed (2024)19,708,714
Avg. Medicare payment per service (2024)$4.57
Where these numbers come from. Rates are CMS's own public fee-schedule files — the Physician Fee Schedule, Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule, ASP drug pricing, DMEPOS, and the OPPS/ASC addenda — each labeled with its file year on this page; national amounts are shown before geographic adjustment. Codes with no separate rate render the fee schedule's own status in words, never a fake $0. Utilization comes from CMS's public Medicare Provider Utilization & Payment data for 2024, the most recent year released. It covers traditional Medicare fee-for-service only (no commercial insurance, no Medicare Advantage), and CMS suppresses any provider-and-code line with fewer than 11 beneficiaries before publishing, so low-volume billers don't appear at all. "Est. Medicare paid" is each billing line's average Medicare payment times its service count, summed — actual per-claim payment varies by setting and modifiers. For drug and supply codes, a "service" is a billed unit (a milligram, a milliliter, a square centimeter), not a patient visit. Code descriptions are CMS's own, from the utilization files. Prospect 811 organizes public data; it doesn't add to or alter it. Not affiliated with or endorsed by CMS. Full detail on the data page.

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