Darwin Smith Negotiated Rates & Price Benchmarks (San Antonio, TX)
Darwin Smith's negotiated rates run at market for San Antonio across common Pain Medicine (Pain Medicine) procedures, based on Transparency in Coverage data from 2 major payers.
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, Darwin Smith's negotiated rates trend at market for San Antonio, though this varies by payer and procedure.
Rate Score evidence
18 proceduresAcross the 18 procedures benchmarked for this provider, most negotiated rates land below the local market.
About this Pain Medicine (Pain Medicine) rate data
Gigasheet collects negotiated rates published by every payer under the federal Transparency in Coverage rule, then normalizes and cleanses them into a single analysis-ready dataset. We enrich those rates with provider, geographic, and reimbursement data from proprietary and open source healthcare intelligence, then benchmark every rate against Medicare, peer providers, and the local market.
For Darwin Smith, that covers common Pain Medicine (Pain Medicine) procedures across Aetna, BCBS, Cigna, and UnitedHealthcare. Pain Medicine is a primary medical specialty based on a distinct body of knowledge and a well-defined scope of clinical practice that is founded on science, research and education. It is concerned with the study of pain, the prevention of pain, and the evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of persons in pain. A comprehensive evaluation incorporates the physical, psychological, cognitive and socio-cultural contributions to pain. The treatment protocol may include pharmacological, invasive, behavioral, cognitive, rehabilitative and complementary strategies provided in a concurrent focused and patient specific manner. The pain medicine physician often serves the patient as a frontline physician regarding their pain, but also may serve as a consultant to other physicians, direct an interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary treatment team, conduct research, or advocate for the patient's pain care with public and private agencies. The Pain Medicine physician may work in variety of settings including office, clinic, hospital, university, or governmental/public agencies.
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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 1497141378.
For each code, negotiated rates from comparable Pain Medicine (Pain Medicine) providers in the San Antonio 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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