Brachy source palladium at Trinitas Regional Medical Center
225 Williamson St, Elizabeth, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1770583999
$61.63
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.
$328.35
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.
$22.07 with United Healthcare vs $318.70 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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| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $22.07 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $24.18 | ↓ -61% |
| Cigna | PPO | $49.98 | ↓ -19% |
| Cigna | HMO | $49.98 | ↓ -19% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $58.80 | ↓ -5% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $58.80 | ↓ -5% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $58.80 | ↓ -5% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $58.80 | ↓ -5% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $64.68 | ↑ +5% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $64.68 | ↑ +5% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $73.50 | ↑ +19% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $73.50 | ↑ +19% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $76.16 | ↑ +24% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $76.16 | ↑ +24% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $76.16 | ↑ +24% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $76.16 | ↑ +24% |
| Humana | Medicare | $76.16 | ↑ +24% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $76.16 | ↑ +24% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $77.68 | ↑ +26% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS/PPO/WC | $77.91 | ↑ +26% |
| First Health | Commercial | $88.20 | ↑ +43% |
| Aetna | HMO | $88.20 | ↑ +43% |
| Aetna | PPO | $88.20 | ↑ +43% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $93.74 | ↑ +52% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $93.74 | ↑ +52% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $151.56 | ↑ +146% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $191.07 | ↑ +210% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $301.01 | ↑ +388% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $315.07 | ↑ +411% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $318.70 | ↑ +417% |
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Brachy source palladium at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $49.69 | $78.19 – $156.38 |
| Community Medical Center | Toms River | $48.64 | $76.16 – $151.56 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | $46.65 | $78.19 – $155.60 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $48.85 | $78.19 – $155.60 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | $48.73 | $82.07 – $163.32 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $51.31 | $77.14 – $153.51 |
| JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute (JRI) | Edison | $77.20 | $69.69 – $154.57 |
| Jersey Shore University Medical Center | Neptune City | $77.14 | $77.14 – $92.56 |