Skin and Veins - Affiliated Providers Southern Cross

Palm Clinic has been an affiliated provider for Southern Cross Healthcare since 2002 for varicose veins treatment where medical necessity criteria apply.

We have now been appointed by Southern Cross as affiliated providers for skin checks, biopsies, liquid nitrogen and skin cancer surgery.

Under the new arrangement Southern Cross Healthcare members are entitled to an annual skin check.  Any suspicious lesions detected by dermatoscopy will be biopsied. Actinic keratoses or irritated seborrhoeic keratoses will be treated with liquid nitrogen or in the case of AK's with Efudix or equivalent skin creams.

Skin cancers including BCC, SCC and melanoma will be treated with appropriate skin surgery.