Bx/exc lymph node/open/superfic 38500 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.
$4,759.00
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.
$34.74 with Wellpoint vs $17,512.30 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 | $34.74 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $714.80 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $782.85 | ↓ -87% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $1,354.08 | ↓ -77% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS/PPO/WC | $1,427.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $1,673.82 | ↓ -71% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $1,673.82 | ↓ -71% |
| Cigna | HMO | $2,543.00 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | HMO | $2,612.00 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | PPO | $2,612.00 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | PPO | $2,678.00 | ↓ -54% |
| First Health | Commercial | $2,855.40 | ↓ -51% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $3,034.81 | ↓ -48% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $3,034.81 | ↓ -48% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $3,811.00 | ↓ -35% |
| Humana | Medicare | $4,184.94 | ↓ -29% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $4,184.94 | ↓ -29% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $4,184.94 | ↓ -29% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $4,184.94 | ↓ -29% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $4,184.94 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $4,184.94 | ↓ -29% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $4,268.64 | ↓ -27% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $4,288.00 | ↓ -27% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $4,484.00 | ↓ -23% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $5,045.00 | ↓ -14% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $8,328.03 | ↑ +42% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $8,369.88 | ↑ +43% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $10,499.18 | ↑ +79% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $16,540.14 | ↑ +182% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $17,312.68 | ↑ +196% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $17,512.30 | ↑ +199% |
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Bx/exc lymph node/open/superfic 38500 at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $6,839.00 | $69.72 – $8,592.30 |
| Community Medical Center | Toms River | $3,786.00 | $71.40 – $8,328.03 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | $3,986.00 | $68.88 – $8,549.34 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $4,881.00 | $35.76 – $8,592.30 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | $5,339.00 | $44.96 – $8,974.08 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $5,419.00 | $137.76 – $8,434.58 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $4,238.48 | $4,238.48 – $5,086.17 |
| Hackensack University Medical Center | Hackensack | $4,509.59 | $547.39 – $4,735.07 |