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Dorcas Achieng

Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner · Houston, TX 77098 · NPI 1346186673 · 1 payer file

72%of Medicare

Aetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only) pays Dorcas Achieng $69.06 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 80 contract rows for this clinician and code, from $53.61 to $81.60; the median is shown.

Negotiated rates vs Medicare

ServicePayer · planNegotiatedMedicare% of MedicareAmong Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners, same plan
99213Office visit, established patient, low complexityAetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$69.06median of 80 rows · $53.61$81.60$96.3372%

above 29% of 400 Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners on this plan

99214Office visit, established patient, moderate complexityAetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$100.10median of 90 rows · $78.99$118.37$137.4173%

above 40% of 400 Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners on this plan

90833Psychotherapy, 30 minutes, add-on to an office visitAetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$65.77median of 48 rows · $57.94$78.30$82.6880%

above 18% of 391 Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners on this plan

90838Psychotherapy, 60 minutes, add-on to an office visitAetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$115.61median of 36 rows · $102.01$137.08$138.6283%

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