Platelets each unit 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

$353.64

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.

$1,778.00

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.

$85.22 with Clover Health vs $2,587.00 with United Healthcare — 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
Clover Health Medicare Advantage $85.22 ↓ -76%
Humana Medicare $85.22 ↓ -76%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Medicare Advantage $85.22 ↓ -76%
Fidelis Care Medicare Advantage $85.22 ↓ -76%
Aetna Medicare $85.22 ↓ -76%
Wellpoint Medicare Advantage $85.22 ↓ -76%
United Healthcare Medicare $86.92 ↓ -75%
Emblem Health Commercial $149.14 ↓ -58%
Wellcare Ambetter Health Commercial $169.59 ↓ -52%
Aetna Better Health $248.03 ↓ -30%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Omnia $748.00 ↑ +112%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey State Benefit Plan $929.18 ↑ +163%
Cigna Local Plus $935.76 ↑ +165%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Managed $952.11 ↑ +169%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Non-Managed $981.81 ↑ +178%
Wellpoint NJ Family Care $1,013.46 ↑ +187%
Aetna HMO $1,049.02 ↑ +197%
Aetna PPO $1,049.02 ↑ +197%
First Health Commercial $1,066.80 ↑ +202%
Cigna HMO $1,189.12 ↑ +236%
Cigna PPO $1,252.42 ↑ +254%
Amerihealth Regional Preferred $1,339.54 ↑ +279%
Amerihealth Local Value $1,339.54 ↑ +279%
Qualcare Inc HMO/POS $1,365.50 ↑ +286%
Qualcare Inc PPO/WC $1,456.18 ↑ +312%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Worker's Comp $1,560.55 ↑ +341%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey PIP $1,697.27 ↑ +380%
United Healthcare Oxford Metro $2,199.00 ↑ +522%
United Healthcare Nexus $2,199.00 ↑ +522%
United Healthcare Oxford Commercial $2,587.00 ↑ +632%
United Healthcare Commercial $2,587.00 ↑ +632%

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Platelets each unit at other New-jersey hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Trinitas Regional Medical Center Elizabeth $333.73 $83.02 – $166.04
Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center Livingston $376.75 $85.22 – $170.44
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Newark $370.35 $85.22 – $170.44
Jersey City Medical Center Jersey City $369.46 $89.46 – $178.03
JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute (JRI) Edison $84.15 $75.96 – $382.00
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Palisades Medical Center North Bergen $89.46 $89.46 – $907.00
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