Car outp meas drg cath chd at Clara Maass Medical Center
1 Clara Maass Dr, Belleville, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1902901333
$331.56
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.
$1,667.00
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.
$64.10 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey vs $12,851.00 with Cigna — 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 | $64.10 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $212.37 | ↓ -36% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $216.37 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $232.54 | ↓ -30% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $701.30 | ↑ +112% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $871.17 | ↑ +163% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $892.67 | ↑ +169% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $920.51 | ↑ +178% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $946.00 | ↑ +185% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $946.00 | ↑ +185% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $950.19 | ↑ +187% |
| First Health | Commercial | $1,000.20 | ↑ +202% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,113.00 | ↑ +236% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $1,113.00 | ↑ +236% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $1,280.25 | ↑ +286% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO/WC | $1,365.27 | ↑ +312% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $1,463.12 | ↑ +341% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $1,591.31 | ↑ +380% |
| Aetna | PPO | $4,294.00 | ↑ +1195% |
| Aetna | HMO | $4,294.00 | ↑ +1195% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $9,602.00 | ↑ +2796% |
| Cigna | HMO | $12,201.00 | ↑ +3580% |
| Cigna | PPO | $12,851.00 | ↑ +3776% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | not published by hospital | — |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | not published by hospital | — |
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Car outp meas drg cath chd at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $353.23 | $64.88 – $946.00 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $347.23 | $117.65 – $946.00 |
| Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton | Hamilton Township | $273.22 | $61.75 – $946.00 |
| Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | not published | $102.01 – $946.00 |
| Community Medical Center | Toms River | not published | $66.44 – $946.00 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | not published | $70.35 – $946.00 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | not published | $128.20 – $946.00 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | not published | not published |