Acetazolamide 500 mg solution for injection at HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE
225 E PARKWOOD AVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1063466035
$63.50
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$63.50
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$0.27 with Superior Health Plan vs $141.42 with Humana — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $0.27 | ↓ -100% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $0.27 | ↓ -100% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $0.27 | ↓ -100% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $0.27 | ↓ -100% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $0.27 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | MCR | $0.30 | ↓ -100% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $0.59 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $0.59 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $0.59 | ↓ -99% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $0.59 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $0.64 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $0.64 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $0.75 | ↓ -99% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $0.92 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $1.08 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $1.08 | ↓ -98% |
| IPA Management Services | COMM | $1.14 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $1.23 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1.59 | ↓ -97% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $1.95 | ↓ -97% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $2.04 | ↓ -97% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $2.42 | ↓ -96% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $2.50 | ↓ -96% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $2.50 | ↓ -96% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $2.72 | ↓ -96% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $2.72 | ↓ -96% |
| Beech Street | WCOMP | $2.72 | ↓ -96% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $2.72 | ↓ -96% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $2.95 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $3.63 | ↓ -94% |
| Beech Street | COMMPPO | $3.63 | ↓ -94% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $3.72 | ↓ -94% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $3.86 | ↓ -94% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $3.86 | ↓ -94% |
| Multiplan | COMPLEMENTARYPPO | $4.09 | ↓ -94% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $4.09 | ↓ -94% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $15.24 | ↓ -76% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $19.05 | ↓ -70% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $19.06 | ↓ -70% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $19.06 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | CSN | $41.70 | ↓ -34% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $42.22 | ↓ -34% |
| United | SmallGroup | $42.22 | ↓ -34% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $42.22 | ↓ -34% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $45.14 | ↓ -29% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $49.33 | ↓ -22% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | Veterans | $50.80 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna | PPO | $53.76 | ↓ -15% |
| BCBS | BAV | $54.37 | ↓ -14% |
| BCBS | HMO | $67.96 | ↑ +7% |
| BCBS | PPO | $67.96 | ↑ +7% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $67.96 | ↑ +7% |
| Humana | HMO | $141.42 | ↑ +123% |
| Humana | PPO | $141.42 | ↑ +123% |
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Acetazolamide 500 mg solution for injection at other Texas hospitals
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|---|---|---|---|
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $246.40 | $96.90 – $96.90 |
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| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $152.56 | $26.72 – $478.92 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $77.80 | $12.82 – $58.26 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $77.80 | $12.82 – $58.26 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $77.80 | $12.82 – $58.26 |
| St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital | Lake Jackson | $58.44 | $25.05 – $108.52 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $1,207.00 | $25.59 – $141.42 |