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Metabolic Blood Panel (Comprehensive) at Hackensack University Medical Center

30 Prospect Avenue, Hackensack, NJ · Hackensack Meridian Health · · NPI 1457456279

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Dec 31, 2025 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$10.56

Cash price

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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.

$318.00

Gross charge

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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.

$8.45 with OPTUM HEALTH vs $318.00 with AMERIHEALTH — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
OPTUM HEALTH MANAGED MEDICAID $8.45 ↓ -20%
SEOUL MEDICAL GROUP ALL PRODUCTS $10.56 ↑ +0%
CLOVER MEDICARE ADVANTAGE $10.56 ↑ +0%
OPTUM HEALTH MEDICARE ADVANTAGE $10.56 ↑ +0%
HORIZON BCBS BRAVEN MEDICARE ADVANTAGE $10.56 ↑ +0%
HORIZON MEDICARE ADVANTAGE $10.56 ↑ +0%
AETNA MEDICARE ADVANTAGE $10.56 ↑ +0%
WELLCARE MEDICARE ADVANTAGE $10.56 ↑ +0%
AMERIGROUP MANAGED MEDICAID $10.56 ↑ +0%
VACCN ALL PRODUCTS $10.56 ↑ +0%
WELLCARE MANAGED MEDICAID $10.56 ↑ +0%
UNITED COMMUNITY/AMERICHOICE MEDICARE ADVANTAGE $11.09 ↑ +5%
LHP HEALTH ALL PRODUCTS $13.20 ↑ +25%
KARNA MEDICARE ADVANTAGE $14.04 ↑ +33%
HORIZON MANAGED MEDICAID $21.41 ↑ +103%
UNITED HEALTHCARE HMO $24.39 ↑ +131%
CIGNA PPO $47.42 ↑ +349%
CIGNA HMO $47.42 ↑ +349%
AETNA MANAGED MEDICAID $79.82 ↑ +656%
AETNA PPO $130.97 ↑ +1140%
AETNA ASA $130.97 ↑ +1140%
AETNA HMO $130.97 ↑ +1140%
OXFORD ALL PRODUCTS $159.00 ↑ +1406%
HORIZON OMNIA $208.26 ↑ +1872%
HORIZON WORKERS COMP $218.97 ↑ +1974%
INTERGROUP ALL PRODUCTS $222.60 ↑ +2008%
HORIZON PIP $238.50 ↑ +2159%
BERGEN RISK ALL PRODUCTS $238.50 ↑ +2159%
BRIGHTON HEALTH PLAN ALL PRODUCTS $251.22 ↑ +2279%
CIGNA BH $254.40 ↑ +2309%
MULTIPLAN - PHCS ALL PRODUCTS $270.30 ↑ +2460%
CHN ALL PRODUCTS $270.30 ↑ +2460%
ACTIVECARE FIRST MCO ALL PRODUCTS $270.30 ↑ +2460%
QUALCARE HMO $280.48 ↑ +2556%
QUALCARE WORKERS COMP $280.48 ↑ +2556%
QUALCARE PPO $280.48 ↑ +2556%
HORIZON HMO $302.86 ↑ +2768%
HORIZON INDEMNITY $304.42 ↑ +2783%
HORIZON SHP $306.36 ↑ +2801%
HORIZON FEDERAL $310.11 ↑ +2837%
HORIZON PPO $310.11 ↑ +2837%
AMERIHEALTH LOCAL HMO $318.00 ↑ +2911%
AMERIHEALTH REGIONAL HMO $318.00 ↑ +2911%

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