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Andrew Tkacik, PA

Physician Assistant · Houston, TX 77040 · NPI 1730774241 · 1 payer file

75%of Medicare

Aetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only) pays Andrew Tkacik, PA $71.86 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 24 contract rows for this clinician and code, from $52.73 to $97.87; the median is shown.

Negotiated rates vs Medicare

ServicePayer · planNegotiatedMedicare% of MedicareAmong Houston physician assistants, same plan
99213Office visit, established patient, low complexityAetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$71.86median of 24 rows · $52.73$97.87$96.3375%

above 55% of 1,220 Houston physician assistants on this plan

99214Office visit, established patient, moderate complexityAetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$103.42median of 24 rows · $77.64$137.77$137.4175%

above 54% of 1,217 Houston physician assistants 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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