Collection of venous blood by venipuncture at Trinitas Regional Medical Center
225 Williamson St, Elizabeth, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1770583999
$9.71
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.
$52.00
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.
$1.65 with United Healthcare vs $55.45 with Aetna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $1.65 | ↓ -83% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1.65 | ↓ -83% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS/PPO/WC | $2.95 | ↓ -70% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $3.04 | ↓ -69% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $3.04 | ↓ -69% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $4.03 | ↓ -58% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $4.03 | ↓ -58% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $4.51 | ↓ -54% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $4.64 | ↓ -52% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $5.15 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $8.55 | ↓ -12% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $9.09 | ↓ -6% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $9.09 | ↓ -6% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $9.09 | ↓ -6% |
| Humana | Medicare | $9.09 | ↓ -6% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $9.09 | ↓ -6% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $9.09 | ↓ -6% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $9.27 | ↓ -5% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $18.09 | ↑ +86% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $18.18 | ↑ +87% |
| Cigna | HMO | $19.65 | ↑ +102% |
| Cigna | PPO | $19.65 | ↑ +102% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $22.80 | ↑ +135% |
| First Health | Commercial | $31.20 | ↑ +221% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $33.16 | ↑ +242% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $33.16 | ↑ +242% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $35.93 | ↑ +270% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $37.60 | ↑ +287% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $38.04 | ↑ +292% |
| Aetna | HMO | $55.45 | ↑ +471% |
| Aetna | PPO | $55.45 | ↑ +471% |
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| Carrier Clinic | Belle Mead | $18.80 | $6.82 – $26.41 |
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| Community Medical Center | Toms River | $9.71 | $1.65 – $19.65 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | $9.71 | $1.65 – $19.65 |
| Childrens Specialized Hospital | Mountainside | $29.00 | $4.42 – $4.55 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $9.71 | $1.65 – $19.65 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | $9.71 | $1.65 – $19.65 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $9.71 | $1.65 – $19.65 |