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Tara Ness

Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Houston, TX 77030 · NPI 1285165035 · 1 payer file

139%of Medicare

Aetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only) pays Tara Ness $133.59 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 12 contract rows for this clinician and code, from $101.19 to $176.35; the median is shown.

Negotiated rates vs Medicare

ServicePayer · planNegotiatedMedicare% of MedicareAmong Houston student in an organized health care education/training programs, same plan
99213Office visit, established patient, low complexityAetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$133.59median of 12 rows · $101.19$176.35$96.33139%

above 80% of 97 Houston student in an organized health care education/training programs on this plan

99214Office visit, established patient, moderate complexityAetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$193.91median of 12 rows · $149.61$251.12$137.41141%

above 84% of 94 Houston student in an organized health care education/training programs 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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