Brain image w/flow < 4 views at Clara Maass Medical Center
1 Clara Maass Dr, Belleville, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1902901333
$222.17
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.
$1,117.00
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.
$139.40 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey vs $1,066.28 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey — 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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| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $139.40 | ↓ -37% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $142.30 | ↓ -36% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $144.98 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $155.82 | ↓ -30% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $222.80 | ↑ +0% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $222.80 | ↑ +0% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $314.94 | ↑ +42% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $314.94 | ↑ +42% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $314.94 | ↑ +42% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $314.94 | ↑ +42% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $450.82 | ↑ +103% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $450.82 | ↑ +103% |
| Humana | Medicare | $450.82 | ↑ +103% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $450.82 | ↑ +103% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $450.82 | ↑ +103% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $450.82 | ↑ +103% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $459.84 | ↑ +107% |
| Aetna | PPO | $483.56 | ↑ +118% |
| Aetna | HMO | $483.56 | ↑ +118% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $520.83 | ↑ +134% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $520.83 | ↑ +134% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $581.65 | ↑ +162% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $581.65 | ↑ +162% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $636.69 | ↑ +187% |
| First Health | Commercial | $670.20 | ↑ +202% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $788.94 | ↑ +255% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $828.00 | ↑ +273% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO/WC | $866.00 | ↑ +290% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $897.13 | ↑ +304% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $921.46 | ↑ +315% |
| Cigna | HMO | $921.46 | ↑ +315% |
| Cigna | PPO | $921.46 | ↑ +315% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $980.39 | ↑ +341% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $1,066.28 | ↑ +380% |
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Brain image w/flow < 4 views at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | $347.24 | $104.90 – $992.30 |
| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $282.03 | $139.40 – $921.46 |
| Community Medical Center | Toms River | $383.69 | $139.40 – $921.46 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $277.24 | $107.98 – $921.46 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | $384.43 | $135.75 – $941.71 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $444.77 | $254.75 – $1,021.05 |
| Hackensack University Medical Center | Hackensack | $473.22 | $126.37 – $1,166.24 |
| Ocean University Medical Center | Brick | $439.15 | $254.75 – $1,021.05 |