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Oscar Bukstein, M.D.

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Physician · Houston, TX 77054 · NPI 1831161876 · 1 payer file

237%of Medicare

UnitedHealthcare — Optum Behavioral Health pays Oscar Bukstein, M.D. $228.53 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 2 contract rows for this clinician and code, from $228.53 to $228.53; the median is shown.

Negotiated rates vs Medicare

ServicePayer · planNegotiatedMedicare% of MedicareAmong Houston child & adolescent psychiatry physicians, same plan
99213Office visit, established patient, low complexityUnitedHealthcare — Optum Behavioral Health$228.53median of 2 rows · $228.53$228.53$96.33237%

above 100% of 43 Houston child & adolescent psychiatry physicians on this plan

99214Office visit, established patient, moderate complexityUnitedHealthcare — Optum Behavioral Health$308.25median of 2 rows · $308.25$308.25$137.41224%

above 100% of 43 Houston child & adolescent psychiatry physicians on this plan

90833Psychotherapy, 30 minutes, add-on to an office visitUnitedHealthcare — Optum Behavioral Health$300.74median of 2 rows · $300.74$300.74$82.68364%

above 100% of 43 Houston child & adolescent psychiatry physicians on this plan

90838Psychotherapy, 60 minutes, add-on to an office visitUnitedHealthcare — Optum Behavioral Health$596.97median of 2 rows · $596.97$596.97$138.62431%

above 100% of 43 Houston child & adolescent psychiatry physicians on this plan

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