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Sara Flores, MD

Psychiatry Physician · Houston, TX 77030 · NPI 1073768248 · 3 payer files

57%of Medicare

Cigna — Texas Connect (individual & family) pays Sara Flores, MD $54.60 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. The file lists 7 contract rows for this clinician and code, from $54.60 to $85.88; the median is shown.

Negotiated rates vs Medicare

ServicePayer · planNegotiatedMedicare% of MedicareAmong Houston psychiatry physicians, same plan
99213Office visit, established patient, low complexityCigna — Texas Connect (individual & family)$54.60median of 7 rows · $54.60$85.88$96.3357%

above 47% of 249 Houston psychiatry physicians on this plan

UnitedHealthcare — Optum Behavioral Health$90.82$96.3394%

above 15% of 204 Houston psychiatry physicians on this plan

Aetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$70.92median of 138 rows · $49.65$136.01$96.3374%

above 47% of 404 Houston psychiatry physicians on this plan

99214Office visit, established patient, moderate complexityCigna — Texas Connect (individual & family)$85.53median of 7 rows · $85.53$124.30$137.4162%

above 47% of 249 Houston psychiatry physicians on this plan

UnitedHealthcare — Optum Behavioral Health$128.43$137.4193%

above 15% of 197 Houston psychiatry physicians on this plan

Aetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$102.62median of 178 rows · $76.01$192.25$137.4175%

above 43% of 404 Houston psychiatry physicians on this plan

90833Psychotherapy, 30 minutes, add-on to an office visitCigna — Texas Connect (individual & family)$38.00median of 7 rows · $38.00$80.30$82.6846%

above 0% of 249 Houston psychiatry physicians on this plan

UnitedHealthcare — Optum Behavioral Health$76.03$82.6892%

above 12% of 197 Houston psychiatry physicians on this plan

Aetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$75.98median of 84 rows · $56.99$118.91$82.6892%

above 54% of 380 Houston psychiatry physicians on this plan

90838Psychotherapy, 60 minutes, add-on to an office visitCigna — Texas Connect (individual & family)$101.00median of 7 rows · $101.00$133.10$138.6273%

above 1% of 249 Houston psychiatry physicians on this plan

UnitedHealthcare — Optum Behavioral Health$116.57$138.6284%

above 14% of 197 Houston psychiatry physicians on this plan

Sources. Cigna — Texas Connect (individual & family) (September 2026); 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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