Biopsy of sacroiliac joint at Trinitas Regional Medical Center
225 Williamson St, Elizabeth, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1770583999
$5,855.00
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.
not published by hospital
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.
$213.59 with Wellpoint vs $7,319.12 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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| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $213.59 | ↓ -96% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $1,514.04 | ↓ -74% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $1,749.06 | ↓ -70% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $1,749.06 | ↓ -70% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $1,749.06 | ↓ -70% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $1,749.06 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | Medicare | $1,749.06 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,749.06 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,784.04 | ↓ -70% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $1,978.15 | ↓ -66% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $1,978.15 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | HMO | $2,612.00 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | PPO | $2,612.00 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | HMO | $2,952.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | PPO | $3,109.00 | ↓ -47% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $3,480.63 | ↓ -41% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $3,498.12 | ↓ -40% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $3,811.00 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $4,288.00 | ↓ -27% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $4,388.04 | ↓ -25% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $4,484.00 | ↓ -23% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $5,045.00 | ↓ -14% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $6,912.81 | ↑ +18% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $7,235.69 | ↑ +24% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $7,319.12 | ↑ +25% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS/PPO/WC | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Better Health | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | not published by hospital | — |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | not published by hospital | — |
| First Health | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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Biopsy of sacroiliac joint at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $6,839.00 | $260.06 – $3,591.06 |
| Community Medical Center | Toms River | $3,786.00 | $266.32 – $3,480.63 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | $3,986.00 | $256.92 – $3,573.10 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $4,881.00 | $219.87 – $3,591.06 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | $5,339.00 | $276.41 – $3,750.63 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $5,419.00 | $513.84 – $3,525.15 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $1,771.43 | $1,771.43 – $2,125.72 |
| Hackensack University Medical Center | Hackensack | $1,884.74 | $901.29 – $1,978.98 |