Does Insurance Cover Mohs

Mohs surgery is covered by most insurance plans, including Medicare. Please enlist the aid of your employee benefits administrator and/or physician’s billing specialist to determine estimated out-of-pocket expenses.

Is Mohs surgery more expensive?

The procedure is heralded as being the “preferred treatment” for certain types of skin cancer and boasts a cure rate of 98 to 99 percent. But Mohs is relatively expensive, costing about $200 more than excision, another standard therapy.

How much does it cost to treat basal cell carcinoma?

The direct cost of treating a patient with a single BCC was $871 (range $630-1,159) using MMS and $3,625 (range $3,430-3,971) using RT. The costs were significantly higher for patients with multiple tumors with both modalities (p = . 02 for both).