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Patrick Fitzwater, PA-C

Medical Physician Assistant · Houston, TX 77055 · NPI 1154509602 · 1 payer file

61%of Medicare

Aetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only) pays Patrick Fitzwater, PA-C $58.95 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 20 contract rows for this clinician and code, from $47.00 to $69.35; the median is shown.

Negotiated rates vs Medicare

ServicePayer · planNegotiatedMedicare% of MedicareAmong Houston medical physician assistants, same plan
99213Office visit, established patient, low complexityAetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$58.95median of 20 rows · $47.00$69.35$96.3361%

above 9% of 129 Houston medical physician assistants on this plan

99214Office visit, established patient, moderate complexityAetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$85.51median of 20 rows · $69.02$100.61$137.4162%

above 8% of 128 Houston medical physician assistants on this plan

Sources. 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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