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Gregory Welch, M.D.

Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Physician · Houston, TX 77070 · NPI 1548232028

54%of Medicare

BCBSTX pays Gregory Welch, M.D. $51.95 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.

Negotiated rates vs Medicare

ServiceBCBSTXMedicare% of MedicareAmong Houston neonatal-perinatal medicine physicians
99213Office visit, established patient, low complexity$51.95$96.3354%

above 4% of 167 Houston neonatal-perinatal medicine physicians

99214Office visit, established patient, moderate complexity$110.52$137.4180%

above 27% of 167 Houston neonatal-perinatal medicine physicians

Source. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas machine-readable file, June 2026, 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.

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; falls back to all Houston clinicians where the specialty cohort is under ten.

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