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Krishna Patel, MD

Pediatrics Physician · Houston, TX 77036 · NPI 1265723308 · 1 payer file

84%of Medicare

Aetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only) pays Krishna Patel, MD $80.60 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 48 contract rows for this clinician and code, from $59.76 to $122.55; the median is shown.

Negotiated rates vs Medicare

ServicePayer · planNegotiatedMedicare% of MedicareAmong Houston pediatrics physicians, same plan
99213Office visit, established patient, low complexityAetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$80.60median of 48 rows · $59.76$122.55$96.3384%

above 48% of 715 Houston pediatrics physicians on this plan

99214Office visit, established patient, moderate complexityAetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$120.23median of 48 rows · $82.34$177.61$137.4187%

above 47% of 717 Houston pediatrics physicians 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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