Jennifer Howicz Negotiated Rates & Price Benchmarks (Round Rock, TX)
Jennifer Howicz's negotiated rates run at market for Round Rock across common Physical Therapy Assistant procedures, based on Transparency in Coverage data from 1 major payer.
Rate Score
Rate Score is Gigasheet's proprietary benchmark for how a provider's negotiated rates compare to market, adjusted for specialty-specific billing patterns. At MarketOn balance, Jennifer Howicz's negotiated rates trend at market for Round Rock, though this varies by payer and procedure.
Rate Score evidence
4 proceduresAcross the 4 procedures benchmarked for this provider, most negotiated rates land at the local market.
About this Physical Therapy Assistant rate data
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For Jennifer Howicz, that covers common Physical Therapy Assistant procedures across Aetna, BCBS, Cigna, and UnitedHealthcare. (1)Physical therapist assistants are skilled health care providers who are graduates of a physical therapist assistant associate degree program accredited by an agency recognized by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education or Council on Postsecondary Accreditation, who assists the physical therapist in providing physical therapy. The supervising physical therapist is directly responsible for the actions of the physical therapist assistant. The PTA performs physical therapy procedures and related tasks that have been selected and delegated by the supervising physical therapist. Duties of the PTA include assisting the physical therapist in implementing treatment programs, training patients in exercised and activities of daily living, conducting treatments, and reporting to the physical therapist on the patient's responses. In addition to direct patient care, the PTA may also perform such functions as patient transport, and clinic or equipment preparation and maintenance. Currently more than half of all states require PTAs to be licensed, registered or certified. (2) An individual who works under the supervision of a physical therapist to assist him or her in providing physical therapy services. A physical therapy assistant may, for instance, help patients follow an appropriate exercise program that will increase their strength, endurance, coordination, and range of motion and train patients to perform activities of daily life.
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How this is calculated
This provider's published rates, compared code by code against the market they compete in.
This provider's negotiated rates, keyed to NPI 1629246806.
For each code, negotiated rates from comparable Physical Therapy Assistant providers in the Round Rock market form a distribution. Its median and percentile bands anchor the benchmark, alongside Medicare reference rates.
Each procedure is scored against its market distribution for the same code. Above, at, or below market reflects where this provider's rate sits relative to that market.
The score above is a blended view of this provider's rate position, produced by Gigasheet's proprietary methodology. It is rooted in published Transparency in Coverage data and normalized for statistical comparison. Position can vary significantly from one payer or procedure to the next. Upgrade to full access to see the evidence behind the Rate Score, including payer-level and procedure-level detail.
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