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Corey Phillips, LPC-ASSOCIATE

Mental Health Counselor · Houston, TX 77089 · NPI 1821969767 · 1 payer file

75%of Medicare

Aetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only) pays Corey Phillips, LPC-ASSOCIATE $72.25 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 110 contract rows for this clinician and code, from $53.11 to $109.93; the median is shown.

Negotiated rates vs Medicare

ServicePayer · planNegotiatedMedicare% of MedicareAmong Houston mental health counselors, same plan
99213Office visit, established patient, low complexityAetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$72.25median of 110 rows · $53.11$109.93$96.3375%

above 42% of 430 Houston mental health counselors on this plan

99214Office visit, established patient, moderate complexityAetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$104.88median of 120 rows · $76.90$159.65$137.4176%

above 87% of 430 Houston mental health counselors on this plan

Also contracted — outside this specialty’s usual billing

ServicePayer · planNegotiatedMedicare% of MedicareAmong Houston mental health counselors, same plan
90833Psychotherapy, 30 minutes, add-on to an office visitAetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$77.50median of 72 rows · $55.28$105.60$82.6894%not typically billed by mental health counselors
90838Psychotherapy, 60 minutes, add-on to an office visitAetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$125.87median of 80 rows · $92.58$185.26$138.6291%not typically billed by mental health counselors

A payer’s file carries a rate for every code in the contract’s fee class, whether or not the clinician will ever bill it. These rows are real, and they are how the fee class shows through — but they are not evidence that Corey Phillips, LPC-ASSOCIATE performs these services, and they are kept out of the benchmark above.

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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