Brain image w/flow < 4 views at Trinitas Regional Medical Center
225 Williamson St, Elizabeth, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1770583999
$347.24
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.
$1,850.00
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.
$104.90 with Wellpoint vs $1,837.67 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 | $104.90 | ↓ -70% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $221.00 | ↓ -36% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $277.87 | ↓ -20% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $300.01 | ↓ -14% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $300.01 | ↓ -14% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $304.32 | ↓ -12% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $439.15 | ↑ +26% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $439.15 | ↑ +26% |
| Humana | Medicare | $439.15 | ↑ +26% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $439.15 | ↑ +26% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $439.15 | ↑ +26% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $439.15 | ↑ +26% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $447.93 | ↑ +29% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $520.83 | ↑ +50% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $520.83 | ↑ +50% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $581.65 | ↑ +68% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $581.65 | ↑ +68% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $873.91 | ↑ +152% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $878.30 | ↑ +153% |
| Cigna | PPO | $921.46 | ↑ +165% |
| Cigna | HMO | $921.46 | ↑ +165% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS/PPO/WC | $992.30 | ↑ +186% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $1,101.74 | ↑ +217% |
| First Health | Commercial | $1,110.00 | ↑ +220% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $1,179.74 | ↑ +240% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $1,179.74 | ↑ +240% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $1,735.65 | ↑ +400% |
| Aetna | PPO | $1,784.86 | ↑ +414% |
| Aetna | HMO | $1,784.86 | ↑ +414% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $1,816.72 | ↑ +423% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $1,837.67 | ↑ +429% |
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Brain image w/flow < 4 views at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $282.03 | $139.40 – $921.46 |
| Community Medical Center | Toms River | $383.69 | $139.40 – $921.46 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | $222.17 | $139.40 – $921.46 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $277.24 | $107.98 – $921.46 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | $384.43 | $135.75 – $941.71 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $444.77 | $254.75 – $1,021.05 |
| Hackensack University Medical Center | Hackensack | $473.22 | $126.37 – $1,166.24 |
| Ocean University Medical Center | Brick | $439.15 | $254.75 – $1,021.05 |