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Albert Valdez, RRT/RCP

Home Health Registered Respiratory Therapist · Houston, TX 77054 · NPI 1518259456 · 1 payer file

82%of Medicare

Aetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only) pays Albert Valdez, RRT/RCP $79.45 for a 99213 — Office 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 8 contract rows for this clinician and code, from $60.35 to $98.54; the median is shown.

Negotiated rates vs Medicare

ServicePayer · planNegotiatedMedicare% of MedicareAmong Houston home health registered respiratory therapists, same plan
99213Office visit, established patient, low complexityAetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$79.45median of 8 rows · $60.35–$98.54$96.3382%

above 56% of 21,862 all Houston clinicians on this plan

99214Office visit, established patient, moderate complexityAetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$114.63median of 8 rows · $88.77–$140.49$137.4183%

above 56% of 21,418 all Houston clinicians 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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