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Brandi Starks, PMHNP

Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner · Houston, TX 77006 · NPI 1639923501 · 2 payer files

56%of Medicare

Cigna — Texas Connect (individual & family) pays Brandi Starks, PMHNP $53.79 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 3 contract rows for this clinician and code, from $53.79 to $101.00; 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 complexityCigna — Texas Connect (individual & family)$53.79median of 3 rows · $53.79$101.00$96.3356%

above 17% of 283 Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners on this plan

Aetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$72.25median of 272 rows · $53.11$109.93$96.3375%

above 64% of 400 Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners on this plan

99214Office visit, established patient, moderate complexityCigna — Texas Connect (individual & family)$84.39median of 3 rows · $84.39$142.00$137.4161%

above 17% of 283 Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners on this plan

Aetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$102.53median of 172 rows · $76.90$159.65$137.4175%

above 72% of 400 Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners on this plan

90833Psychotherapy, 30 minutes, add-on to an office visitCigna — Texas Connect (individual & family)$38.00median of 3 rows · $38.00$75.00$82.6846%

above 0% of 283 Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners on this plan

Aetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$74.09median of 108 rows · $55.28$105.60$82.6890%

above 82% of 391 Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners on this plan

90838Psychotherapy, 60 minutes, add-on to an office visitCigna — Texas Connect (individual & family)$101.00median of 3 rows · $101.00$126.00$138.6273%

above 0% of 283 Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners on this plan

Aetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$124.08median of 92 rows · $92.58$185.26$138.6290%

above 85% of 370 Houston psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners on this plan

Sources. Cigna — Texas Connect (individual & family) (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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