Surgery to remove a splinter? An operation to apply ointment? Some patients are shocked by how their doctors bill for simple ...

Medicare typically doesn’t cover cosmetic procedures, but it will cover wart removal if it’s deemed medically necessary. In this case, you’ll pay 20% of the Medicare-approved amount after ...

My abuelita told me that to get rid of warts all you needed to do is to pee on it. I had also heard that rubbing a potato or a penny on it will get rid of it, too. So which one is true?

MESSRS. EDITORS.—A very effective cure for moles and warts without pain is to tie a waxed thread around each, as near the root as possible, not tight enough to break the skin, or cause pain.

Removing an appendix or a tumor ... took his 3-year-old daughter to a doctor this year because she had a bothersome plantar wart on her foot. The doctor applied a chemical ointment to the wart ...

Routine procedures such as splinter removal and wart treatment are increasingly billed as surgeries, leading to unexpected costs for patients. When George Lai of Portland, Oregon, took his toddler ...