Echo guide for heart biopsy at Trinitas Regional Medical Center
225 Williamson St, Elizabeth, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1770583999
$61.75
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.
$329.00
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.
$27.78 with Qualcare Inc vs $299.98 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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| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS/PPO/WC | $27.78 | ↓ -55% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $42.84 | ↓ -31% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $49.41 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $54.12 | ↓ -12% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $119.18 | ↑ +93% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $179.83 | ↑ +191% |
| First Health | Commercial | $197.40 | ↑ +220% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $209.80 | ↑ +240% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $209.80 | ↑ +240% |
| Aetna | PPO | $278.33 | ↑ +351% |
| Aetna | HMO | $278.33 | ↑ +351% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $283.33 | ↑ +359% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $296.56 | ↑ +380% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $299.98 | ↑ +386% |
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Echo guide for heart biopsy at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital | New Brunswick | $103.02 | $75.18 – $184.46 |
| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | not published | $75.18 – $166.00 |
| Community Medical Center | Toms River | not published | $75.18 – $75.18 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | not published | $75.18 – $75.18 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | not published | $44.10 – $166.00 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | not published | $55.44 – $144.60 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | not published | $75.18 – $166.00 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | not published | $115.03 – $115.03 |