How much can a skin cancer treatment cost?

I think you may need to be more specific, since there are a few types of skin cancer, as well as a few modes of treatment for skin cancer.

Hi Ross,

Thanks for answering. I am talking about the surgical removal of cancerous skin (if thats the appropriate way to say it). Is this usually covered by insurance? Are there medications to take afterwards?

This probably falls into the category of an excisional biopsy, meaning a complete removal of the cutaneous lesion for further examination by a qualified pathologist. Sometimes this amounts to a cure-- if the cancer is localized to that lesion, and there's no evidence of it having spread, then the excision is considered, at least medically, to be a curative procedure. I think it probably depends on the insurer, but biopsies are not only very common but in cancer they're essential to making a diagnosis, so there's little reason to think that insurance wouldn't cover it.

As for post-treatment, I don't think anything beyond keeping the wound clean would be required-- until that is the results of the biopsy came back. At that time you might learn if it's a skin cancer, or perhaps a cutaneous non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and possibly whether it's local or systemic. But immediately following such a biopsy, I don't think there's anything beyond basic 'wound' treatment.