Increasing the Use of Total Body Skin Exam in Medicare Beneficiaries: Is This a Blessing or a Curse?
Author links open overlay panel Yin Li 1 2, Robert A. Swerlick 2 The investigators tracked TBSE use from 2009 through 2018 and observed stepwise increases in TBSEs, starting with 53% of Medicare FFS encounters in 2009. In the final year of queried Medicare data (2018), 73% of encounters included a TBSE. The researchers recognize the limitations of the model used to infer TBSE use. There is also substantial uncertainty regarding why patients received TBSEs, whether in response to specific skin cancer