Low cost skin substitute app at Clara Maass Medical Center

1 Clara Maass Dr, Belleville, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1902901333

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 4, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$1,295.23

Cash price

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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.

$6,512.00

Gross charge

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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.

$30.70 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey vs $6,216.35 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey NJ Health $30.70 ↓ -98%
Humana Medicare $686.76 ↓ -47%
Aetna Medicare $686.76 ↓ -47%
Fidelis Care Medicare Advantage $686.76 ↓ -47%
Wellpoint Medicare Advantage $686.76 ↓ -47%
Clover Health Medicare Advantage $686.76 ↓ -47%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Medicare Advantage $686.76 ↓ -47%
United Healthcare Medicare $700.50 ↓ -46%
United Healthcare Community Plan $829.62 ↓ -36%
Fidelis Care NJ Family Care $845.25 ↓ -35%
Aetna Better Health $908.42 ↓ -30%
Emblem Health Commercial $1,201.83 ↓ -7%
Wellcare Ambetter Health Commercial $1,366.65 ↑ +6%
Cigna Local Plus $1,479.00 ↑ +14%
Cigna HMO $1,879.00 ↑ +45%
Cigna PPO $1,979.00 ↑ +53%
United Healthcare Oxford Metro $2,211.00 ↑ +71%
United Healthcare Nexus $2,595.00 ↑ +100%
United Healthcare Oxford Commercial $2,601.00 ↑ +101%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Omnia $2,739.59 ↑ +112%
United Healthcare Commercial $3,053.00 ↑ +136%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey State Benefit Plan $3,403.17 ↑ +163%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Managed $3,487.17 ↑ +169%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Non-Managed $3,595.92 ↑ +178%
Wellpoint NJ Family Care $3,711.84 ↑ +187%
First Health Commercial $3,907.20 ↑ +202%
Amerihealth Local Value $4,216.52 ↑ +226%
Qualcare Inc HMO/POS $5,001.21 ↑ +286%
Amerihealth Regional Preferred $5,136.01 ↑ +297%
Aetna HMO $5,153.00 ↑ +298%
Aetna PPO $5,153.00 ↑ +298%
Qualcare Inc PPO/WC $5,333.32 ↑ +312%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Worker's Comp $5,715.58 ↑ +341%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey PIP $6,216.35 ↑ +380%

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Low cost skin substitute app at other New-jersey hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center Livingston $1,389.00 $31.08 – $1,373.52
Community Medical Center Toms River $853.24 $31.82 – $1,331.27
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Newark $1,365.40 $56.35 – $1,373.52
Jersey City Medical Center Jersey City $854.88 $33.70 – $1,434.55
Monmouth Medical Center Long Branch $900.14 $61.40 – $1,348.30
JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute (JRI) Edison $678.13 $37.44 – $678.13
Jersey Shore University Medical Center Neptune City $677.54 $677.54 – $813.05
Palisades Medical Center North Bergen $720.88 $720.88 – $785.76

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