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Charles Dukes, MD

Psychiatry Physician · Houston, TX 77058 · NPI 1972720761 · 2 payer files

49%of Medicare

UnitedHealthcare — Optum Behavioral Health pays Charles Dukes, MD $46.75 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 $46.75 to $46.75; the median is shown.

Negotiated rates vs Medicare

ServicePayer · planNegotiatedMedicare% of MedicareAmong Houston psychiatry physicians, same plan
99213Office visit, established patient, low complexityUnitedHealthcare — Optum Behavioral Health$46.75median of 2 rows · $46.75$46.75$96.3349%

above 0% of 204 Houston psychiatry physicians on this plan

Aetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$68.42median of 20 rows · $53.95$80.50$96.3371%

above 14% of 404 Houston psychiatry physicians on this plan

99214Office visit, established patient, moderate complexityUnitedHealthcare — Optum Behavioral Health$62.50median of 2 rows · $62.50$62.50$137.4145%

above 3% of 197 Houston psychiatry physicians on this plan

Aetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$99.31median of 20 rows · $79.48$116.83$137.4172%

above 18% of 404 Houston psychiatry physicians on this plan

90833Psychotherapy, 30 minutes, add-on to an office visitUnitedHealthcare — Optum Behavioral Health$49.75median of 2 rows · $49.75$49.75$82.6860%

above 4% of 197 Houston psychiatry physicians on this plan

Aetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$65.67median of 24 rows · $57.94$77.26$82.6879%

above 7% of 380 Houston psychiatry physicians on this plan

90838Psychotherapy, 60 minutes, add-on to an office visitUnitedHealthcare — Optum Behavioral Health$99.75median of 2 rows · $99.75$99.75$138.6272%

above 4% of 197 Houston psychiatry physicians on this plan

Aetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$115.61median of 18 rows · $102.01$136.02$138.6283%

above 16% of 213 Houston psychiatry physicians 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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