Advanced Practice Providers and Western Providers Are Associated With Increased Likelihood of Benign Skin Biopsies: A Cross-sectional Analysis

This analysis is performed only on Medicare patients, which can limit the generalizability of the results over all the population groups. Nurse practitioners and physician assistants (as compared to Doctor of Medicine/Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine), providers practicing in the West (as compared to in the South), and providers practicing in metropolitan cities (as compared to nonmetropolitan cities) were more likely to perform benign skin biopsies than their counterparts.