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Tracey Ndukwe

Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner · Houston, TX 77068 · NPI 1073261368 · 2 payer files

80%of Medicare

UnitedHealthcare — Optum Behavioral Health pays Tracey Ndukwe $77.20 for a 99213Office visit, established patient, low complexity. Medicare pays $96.33 for the same service in this locality. Commercial insurance is widely assumed to pay above Medicare.

Negotiated rates vs Medicare

ServicePayer · planNegotiatedMedicare% of MedicareAmong Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners, same plan
99213Office visit, established patient, low complexityUnitedHealthcare — Optum Behavioral Health$77.20$96.3380%

above 2% of 122 Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners on this plan

Aetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$69.36median of 30 rows · $55.30$81.60$96.3372%

above 41% of 400 Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners on this plan

99214Office visit, established patient, moderate complexityUnitedHealthcare — Optum Behavioral Health$109.17$137.4179%

above 2% of 122 Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners on this plan

Aetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$100.61median of 50 rows · $81.21$118.37$137.4173%

above 52% of 400 Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners on this plan

90833Psychotherapy, 30 minutes, add-on to an office visitUnitedHealthcare — Optum Behavioral Health$64.63$82.6878%

above 2% of 122 Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners on this plan

Aetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$66.56median of 12 rows · $58.73$78.30$82.6881%

above 26% of 391 Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners on this plan

90838Psychotherapy, 60 minutes, add-on to an office visitUnitedHealthcare — Optum Behavioral Health$99.08$138.6271%

above 2% of 122 Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners on this plan

Aetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$115.61median of 24 rows · $102.01$136.02$138.6283%

above 17% of 370 Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners on this plan

Sources. UnitedHealthcare — Optum Behavioral Health (September 2026); Aetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only) (August 2026 extract). Each payer’s machine-readable file, joined to the national provider registry by NPI. Rates are the negotiated professional amounts — not billed charges, and not what a member owes after cost sharing. Where a file carries several contract rows for one clinician and code, the median is shown with the range and row count beneath it.

Medicare. Non-facility allowed amount, HOUSTON, Texas, Locality 18, CY2026 non-QP conversion factor, computed from RVUs and the locality’s geographic indices — not looked up from a table.

Position. Percentile of this rate among Houston clinicians in the same specialty holding a rate for the same code on the same plan; falls back to all Houston clinicians on that plan where the specialty cohort is under ten. Payers are never pooled.

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