Insertion of catheter vein 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.
$2,188.00
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.
$89.57 with Wellpoint vs $3,236.00 with United Healthcare — 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 | $89.57 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $328.63 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $359.92 | ↓ -94% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS/PPO/WC | $656.40 | ↓ -89% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $1,195.96 | ↓ -80% |
| First Health | Commercial | $1,312.80 | ↓ -78% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $1,395.28 | ↓ -76% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $1,395.28 | ↓ -76% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $1,673.82 | ↓ -71% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $1,673.82 | ↓ -71% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $1,693.84 | ↓ -71% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $1,884.30 | ↓ -68% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $1,972.26 | ↓ -66% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $1,995.01 | ↓ -66% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $2,445.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | PPO | $2,612.00 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | HMO | $2,612.00 | ↓ -55% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $2,751.00 | ↓ -53% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $2,877.00 | ↓ -51% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $3,236.00 | ↓ -45% |
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Insertion of catheter vein at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $6,839.00 | $210.82 – $210.82 |
| Community Medical Center | Toms River | $3,786.00 | $215.90 – $215.90 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $4,881.00 | $92.20 – $382.27 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | $5,339.00 | $115.91 – $228.60 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $5,419.00 | $416.56 – $416.56 |
| Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital | New Brunswick | $5,741.00 | $191.77 – $191.77 |
| Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset | Somerville | $6,311.00 | $94.83 – $191.77 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | not published | $208.28 – $208.28 |