Acetazolamide 500 mg solution for injection at HCA HOUSTON WEST
12141 RICHMOND AVENUE, HOUSTON, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1275580938
$1,207.00
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.
$1,207.00
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.
$25.59 with Christus (USFHP) vs $1,086.30 with Affiliated PPO — 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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| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $25.59 | ↓ -98% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRCR | $25.59 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | CSN | $41.70 | ↓ -97% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $42.22 | ↓ -97% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $42.22 | ↓ -97% |
| United | SmallGroup | $42.22 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $45.14 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $49.33 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | PPO | $53.76 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | BAV | $54.37 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | HMO | $67.96 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | PPO | $67.96 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $67.96 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $72.42 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $72.42 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $72.42 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $72.42 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $72.42 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | MCR | $80.02 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | HMO | $141.42 | ↓ -88% |
| Humana | PPO | $141.42 | ↓ -88% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $156.91 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $156.91 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $156.91 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $156.91 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | MCDCHIPBH | $168.98 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $168.98 | ↓ -86% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | CHIP | $200.36 | ↓ -83% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $202.78 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | HMO | $211.22 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | EPO | $211.22 | ↓ -83% |
| Superior | ValueHMO | $238.99 | ↓ -80% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STARKIDS | $286.06 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plans | STAR | $286.06 | ↓ -76% |
| Texas Workforce Commission | WCOMP | $289.68 | ↓ -76% |
| Molina Healthcare | HIX | $325.89 | ↓ -73% |
| CHC Harris Health | Indigent | $362.10 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $422.45 | ↓ -65% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCEL | $519.01 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $543.15 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $643.33 | ↓ -47% |
| Rockport Workers Comp | COMM | $663.85 | ↓ -45% |
| Physicians Cooperative of Texas | WC | $663.85 | ↓ -45% |
| Triumph | COMM | $724.20 | ↓ -40% |
| National Healthcare Solutions | COMM | $724.20 | ↓ -40% |
| SouthWest Medical | WORKERSCOMP | $724.20 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Medical System | COMM | $724.20 | ↓ -40% |
| Coastal Comp | COMM | $784.55 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | PHCSPrimaryNetwork | $905.25 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $965.60 | ↓ -20% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $989.74 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $1,025.95 | ↓ -15% |
| Physicians, INC | COMM | $1,025.95 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | ACCOUNTABLEPPO | $1,025.95 | ↓ -15% |
| Affiliated PPO | COMM | $1,086.30 | ↓ -10% |
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Acetazolamide 500 mg solution for injection at other Texas hospitals
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|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $77.80 | $12.82 – $58.26 |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $19.06 – $141.42 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $19.06 – $141.42 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $246.40 | $96.90 – $96.90 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $63.50 | $19.06 – $141.42 |
| 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 |