Echocardiography transthoracic 2d followup/limited at Hackensack University Medical Center
30 Prospect Avenue, Hackensack, NJ · Hackensack Meridian Health · · NPI 1457456279
$284.66
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.
$1,049.00
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.
$176.59 with KARNA vs $5,399.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KARNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $176.59 | ↓ -38% |
| CLOVER | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $188.82 | ↓ -34% |
| OPTUM HEALTH | MANAGED MEDICAID | $227.73 | ↓ -20% |
| AETNA | MANAGED MEDICAID | $263.30 | ↓ -8% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $283.37 | ↓ -0% |
| HORIZON | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $284.66 | ↑ +0% |
| WELLCARE | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $284.66 | ↑ +0% |
| WELLCARE | MANAGED MEDICAID | $284.66 | ↑ +0% |
| VACCN | ALL PRODUCTS | $284.66 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM HEALTH | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $284.66 | ↑ +0% |
| HORIZON BCBS BRAVEN | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $284.66 | ↑ +0% |
| UNITED COMMUNITY/AMERICHOICE | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $298.90 | ↑ +5% |
| SEOUL MEDICAL GROUP | ALL PRODUCTS | $300.01 | ↑ +5% |
| HORIZON | MANAGED MEDICAID | $519.26 | ↑ +82% |
| HORIZON | OMNIA | $686.99 | ↑ +141% |
| HORIZON | WORKERS COMP | $722.34 | ↑ +154% |
| INTERGROUP | ALL PRODUCTS | $734.30 | ↑ +158% |
| BERGEN RISK | ALL PRODUCTS | $786.75 | ↑ +176% |
| HORIZON | PIP | $786.75 | ↑ +176% |
| LHP HEALTH | ALL PRODUCTS | $828.71 | ↑ +191% |
| CIGNA | BH | $839.20 | ↑ +195% |
| MULTIPLAN - PHCS | ALL PRODUCTS | $891.65 | ↑ +213% |
| ACTIVECARE FIRST MCO | ALL PRODUCTS | $891.65 | ↑ +213% |
| CHN | ALL PRODUCTS | $891.65 | ↑ +213% |
| QUALCARE | WORKERS COMP | $925.22 | ↑ +225% |
| QUALCARE | HMO | $925.22 | ↑ +225% |
| QUALCARE | PPO | $925.22 | ↑ +225% |
| BRIGHTON HEALTH PLAN | ALL PRODUCTS | $944.10 | ↑ +232% |
| HORIZON | HMO | $999.07 | ↑ +251% |
| HORIZON | INDEMNITY | $1,004.21 | ↑ +253% |
| HORIZON | SHP | $1,010.61 | ↑ +255% |
| CIGNA | PPO | $1,014.91 | ↑ +257% |
| CIGNA | HMO | $1,014.91 | ↑ +257% |
| HORIZON | FEDERAL | $1,022.98 | ↑ +259% |
| HORIZON | PPO | $1,022.98 | ↑ +259% |
| AMERIHEALTH | LOCAL HMO | $1,049.00 | ↑ +269% |
| AMERIHEALTH | REGIONAL HMO | $1,049.00 | ↑ +269% |
| AETNA | HMO | $1,185.01 | ↑ +316% |
| AETNA | PPO | $1,185.01 | ↑ +316% |
| AETNA | ASA | $1,185.01 | ↑ +316% |
| OXFORD | ALL PRODUCTS | $5,320.00 | ↑ +1769% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | HMO | $5,399.00 | ↑ +1797% |
| AMERIGROUP | MANAGED MEDICAID | not published by hospital | — |
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