What can I expect to pay for my visit?
Cannon Dermatology offers affordable and transparent pricing regardless of insurance type or lack thereof. We offer different appointment types understanding that no one person or disease process fits an exact mold. If you are unsure of the appointment type that is right for you, please call us so we may assist you in scheduling. Compassionate patient care is our priority and we will make every effort to work with you so that you receive the quality care you deserve.
Insurance can still be used for prescription medications, laboratory testing and biopsies ordered by Dr. Cannon. At your request, we will provided a coded receipt that you can submit to your insurance to seek out of network reimbursement.
How do I make payment?
Patient’s can pay for their office visit with credit card, cash, check, HSA/FSA, and Zelle®.
A 3% merchant processing fee will be added to all credit card transactions. To avoid this fee, patient’s can make payment using cash, check, HSA and Zelle®.
(Fee schedule updated 05/04/2022, effective 05/05/2022)
Examples for each visit type are listed below:
Level 1 visit/Follow-up visit (15 minutes) - $95
Follow-ups only, unless approved prior for new patients
Follow-up on stable condition
Follow up for stable acne or eczema for refills only when no change in management is necessary
Follow up for treatment of warts or molluscum
Re-biopsy of already diagnosed lesion
Level 1 visit/Follow-up visit + Minor procedures (15 minutes) - $145
Same recommendations as above for standard Level I appointment AND
Those patients who may need/desire minor procedures in one office visit. Minor procedures are defined as a shave biopsy, skin tag removal, some mole removals which don’t involve suture (stitches) but include local anesthetic, intralesional kenalog injections, and liquid nitrogen of multiple lesions.
Level 2 visit / NEW PATIENTS (30 minutes) - $ 195
Minimum required for all NEW patients
Minimum required for full body skin examination
New or extensive rash or unstable or worsening rash
Patients with diagnoses requiring extensive medication monitoring/counseling
Hair loss evaluation
New patient acne consultation or worsening/unstable acne follow-up
Level 2 visit + MINor procedures (30 minutes) - $245
Same recommendations as above for standard Level II appointment AND
Those patients who may need/desire minor procedures in one office visit. Minor procedures are defined as a shave biopsy, skin tag removal, some mole removals which don’t involve suture (stitches) but include local anesthetic, intralesional kenalog injection, and liquid nitrogen of multiple lesions.
Level 3 visit (45 minutes) - $275
Patients with multiple complex problems requiring counseling/monitoring
Patients with extensive skin cancer history and/or those requiring use of imaging for monitoring of skin cancers
Level 4 visit (up to 60 minutes) - $325
Appropriate for patients with complex medical issues or those that need/desire multiple procedures in one office visit
SURGICAL, level 1 - $195
Appropriate for ED&C of skin cancers, destruction of benign lesions such as skin tags and keratoses, multiple mole removal, incisional biopsies
surgical, level 2 - $ 325
Appropriate for excisions of benign lesions such as cysts and lipomas, excisions of cancerous lesions, hidradenitis surgery
SEPARATE FEES
Pricing for procedures such as electrodessication and curettage, excisions requiring stitches and incisional biopsies will have separate pricing depending on time and complexity.
Occasionally, there may be additional fees for the time it takes our staff to complete additional paperwork or extra tasks that are done on your behalf. We will inform you beforehand if extra fees are involved. These include:
Biopsies/Laboratory studies: Your insurance information will be sent to the outside lab which will utilize your insurance first for the billing of any ordered tests and/or biopsy studies. These labs are unassociated with our practice. You may be billed for any portion not covered by your insurance. For uninsured patients, these outside labs will offer discounted self-pay rates. These bills will come directly to you and will not be from our office.
$5: Forms to be prepared for any outside entity (not including other physician offices)
$25: Prior authorizations (PA) for medications
PAs are often required for specialty medications such as psoriasis and eczema injectable biologic medications, isotretinoin, and acne medications. These require additional paperwork, individualized appeal letters and at times phone calls with the insurance company to request appeal of denials. Based on this additional time, a fee will be charged for all completed. prior authorizations.
* Prices above are subject to change without prior notice