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Sarah Meade, P/MHNP

Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner · Houston, TX 77021 · NPI 1578504858 · 2 payer files

76%of Medicare

UnitedHealthcare — Optum Behavioral Health pays Sarah Meade, P/MHNP $73.34 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.

Negotiated rates vs Medicare

ServicePayer · planNegotiatedMedicare% of MedicareAmong Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners, same plan
99213Office visit, established patient, low complexityUnitedHealthcare — Optum Behavioral Health$73.34$96.3376%

above 1% of 122 Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners on this plan

Aetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$58.11median of 24 rows · $43.13$78.30$96.3360%

above 1% of 400 Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners on this plan

99214Office visit, established patient, moderate complexityUnitedHealthcare — Optum Behavioral Health$103.71$137.4175%

above 1% of 122 Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners on this plan

Aetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$83.80median of 48 rows · $63.51$110.54$137.4161%

above 1% of 400 Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners on this plan

90833Psychotherapy, 30 minutes, add-on to an office visitUnitedHealthcare — Optum Behavioral Health$61.40$82.6874%

above 2% of 122 Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners on this plan

Aetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$56.73median of 24 rows · $47.29$70.42$82.6869%

above 3% of 391 Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners on this plan

90838Psychotherapy, 60 minutes, add-on to an office visitUnitedHealthcare — Optum Behavioral Health$94.13$138.6268%

above 2% of 122 Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners on this plan

Aetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$95.96median of 24 rows · $80.20$118.85$138.6269%

above 1% of 370 Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners on this plan

Sources. UnitedHealthcare — Optum Behavioral Health (September 2026); 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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