Hydrogel FAQs
How much does Hydrogel cost without insurance?
Hydrogel is a generic, non-prescription compound available separately or in combination with other ingredients in several medical devices, consumer products, and drugs. Insured and uninsured customers can expect to pay $75.50 for Hydrogel. With a SingleCare discount card and a prescription for Hydrogel, you pay only $18.05 per 0.012, 2400gm of bottle.
How much does Hydrogel cost with insurance?
You will not have a copay for Hydrogel because is not covered by insurance. Currently, however, you will pay only $18.05 for Hydrogel with a SingleCare savings card. SingleCare is welcomed at major pharmacies throughout the nation, including CVS, Longs Drugs, Fry's, and Walgreens.
Does Medicare cover Hydrogel and how much does it cost?
Medicare prescription drug plans do not cover purchases of Hydrogel. An easy way to reduce the cost of Hydrogel is by using a SingleCare discount card with your prescription for Hydrogel. A SingleCare Hydrogel coupon reduces the price of Hydrogel to $18.05.
What is the brand name of Hydrogel?
Hydrogel is a generic compound used in a wide variety of applications. Some brand-name dressings that contain Hydrogel include AMERIGEL Hydrogel Wound Dressing, PluroGel Burn and Wound Dressing, 3M Tegaderm Hydrogel Wound Filler, and Cardinal Health Hydrogel. Some brand-name skincare products that contain Hydrogel include Honest Beauty Hydrogel Cream and Neutrogena Deep Clean Purifying 100% Hydrogel Mask. Additionally, brand-name Hydrogel contact lenses are manufactured by Biofinity, Air Optix, Acuvue VITA, and PureVision MultiFocal.
What is Hydrogel?
Hydrogel is a structure made of polymers (proteins) that are saturated with water. The water fills the empty spaces between the polymers (proteins). In fact, Hydrogel is mostly water.
The best-known Hydrogel product is Jell-O gelatin, which comes as a dry powder consisting of collagen proteins. When heated with water and cooled, the proteins in Jell-O form a net-like structure which “captures” the water in the empty spaces between proteins. The proteins form a water-filled structure that has properties of both a solid (it never loses its shape) and a liquid (it allows small molecules to pass through).
Hydrogel is widely used in medical devices and drugs. Hydrogel is mostly used as soft contact lenses or implants, such as breast implants.
However, Hydrogel is widely used to dress wounds and burns, providing protection while also keeping the wound or burn moist, which regular dressings do not do. Because Hydrogel does not dissolve in water, it is often used as dressings or a protective barrier in the mouth and sometimes is put directly on sores in the intestines. Some Hydrogel used as dressings include live cells that continually regenerate the proteins in the Hydrogel dressing so that the dressing does not need to be replaced.
Hydrogel is commonly used in drug delivery systems—in oral drugs, injections, topical drugs, and rectal drugs. In these cases, the drug is trapped in the Hydrogel along with the water. When placed in or on the body, the drug is released either by diffusing out of the Hydrogel or being released by the Hydrogel as it breaks down. The technology of designing Hydrogel is so sophisticated, that the timing of drug delivery, including long-term extended-release, can be done with astonishing precision.
Hydrogel can be highly absorbent, so they are frequently used in diapers, sanitary napkins, and dressings that are intended to absorb blood, fluids, or dead tissue from wounds.
At a more sophisticated level, Hydrogel is being used to grow human tissues for grafts or transplants. It is also being experimented on to deliver stem cells into the body to help regrow tissues within a living body. Hydrogel provides a structure, or scaffold, for the cells to grow on.
What are the side effects of Hydrogel?
Side effects of Hydrogel depend on what it is made of, what it contains, how it is used, and what part of the body it is used on. Hydrogel can cause allergic reactions used as medical devices, wound dressings, or drug delivery systems.
