Brain MRI (with contrast) at Trinitas Regional Medical Center
225 Williamson St, Elizabeth, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1770583999
$678.53
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.
$3,615.00
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.
$144.46 with Wellpoint vs $2,305.28 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 | $144.46 | ↓ -79% |
| Humana | Medicare | $390.30 | ↓ -42% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $390.30 | ↓ -42% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $390.30 | ↓ -42% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $390.30 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $390.30 | ↓ -42% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $390.30 | ↓ -42% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $398.11 | ↓ -41% |
| Cigna | HMO | $414.00 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna | PPO | $436.00 | ↓ -36% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS/PPO/WC | $483.04 | ↓ -29% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $493.70 | ↓ -27% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $493.70 | ↓ -27% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $542.97 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $594.66 | ↓ -12% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $603.32 | ↓ -11% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $603.32 | ↓ -11% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $776.70 | ↑ +14% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $780.60 | ↑ +15% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $915.20 | ↑ +35% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $979.18 | ↑ +44% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $1,037.77 | ↑ +53% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $1,037.77 | ↑ +53% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $1,542.58 | ↑ +127% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $1,614.63 | ↑ +138% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $1,633.25 | ↑ +141% |
| Aetna | PPO | $1,971.18 | ↑ +191% |
| Aetna | HMO | $1,971.18 | ↑ +191% |
| First Health | Commercial | $2,169.00 | ↑ +220% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $2,305.28 | ↑ +240% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $2,305.28 | ↑ +240% |
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Brain MRI (with contrast) at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $766.01 | $400.67 – $2,072.00 |
| Community Medical Center | Toms River | $749.75 | $326.00 – $2,072.00 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | $719.02 | $326.00 – $2,072.00 |
| Childrens Specialized Hospital | Mountainside | $1,728.00 | $352.00 – $352.00 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $753.00 | $148.71 – $2,072.00 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | $751.19 | $186.95 – $2,010.00 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $790.96 | $326.00 – $2,072.00 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $395.29 | $395.29 – $4,332.00 |