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Benjamin LI, M.D.

Addiction Psychiatry Physician · Houston, TX 77030 · NPI 1972766897 · 1 payer file

117%of Medicare

Aetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only) pays Benjamin LI, M.D. $112.50 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 8 contract rows for this clinician and code, from $85.33 to $139.67; the median is shown.

Negotiated rates vs Medicare

ServicePayer · planNegotiatedMedicare% of MedicareAmong Houston addiction psychiatry physicians, same plan
99213Office visit, established patient, low complexityAetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$112.50median of 8 rows · $85.33$139.67$96.33117%

above 44% of 10 Houston addiction psychiatry physicians on this plan

99214Office visit, established patient, moderate complexityAetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$162.46median of 8 rows · $125.67$199.24$137.41118%

above 44% of 10 Houston addiction psychiatry physicians on this plan

90833Psychotherapy, 30 minutes, add-on to an office visitAetna — Texas (office visit and psychotherapy codes only)$108.58median of 8 rows · $97.28$119.88$82.68131%

above 22% of 10 Houston addiction psychiatry physicians 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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