Car outp meas drg cath chd at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton
1 Hamilton Health Pl, Hamilton Township, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1629069638
$273.22
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.
$1,667.00
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.
$61.75 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey vs $15,436.00 with Cigna — 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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| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $61.75 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $202.70 | ↓ -26% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $208.54 | ↓ -24% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $222.04 | ↓ -19% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $836.00 | ↑ +206% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $946.00 | ↑ +246% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $946.00 | ↑ +246% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $955.35 | ↑ +250% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $962.02 | ↑ +252% |
| First Health | Commercial | $1,000.20 | ↑ +266% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $1,026.37 | ↑ +276% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $1,047.87 | ↑ +284% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $1,113.00 | ↑ +307% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,113.00 | ↑ +307% |
| Qualcare Inc | WC | $1,390.27 | ↑ +409% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS/PPO | $1,390.27 | ↑ +409% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $1,416.95 | ↑ +419% |
| Aetna | PPO | $4,174.00 | ↑ +1428% |
| Aetna | HMO | $4,174.00 | ↑ +1428% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $11,534.00 | ↑ +4122% |
| Cigna | HMO | $14,656.00 | ↑ +5264% |
| Cigna | PPO | $15,436.00 | ↑ +5550% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | not published by hospital | — |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | not published by hospital | — |
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Car outp meas drg cath chd at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $353.23 | $64.88 – $946.00 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | $331.56 | $64.10 – $946.00 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $347.23 | $117.65 – $946.00 |
| Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | not published | $102.01 – $946.00 |
| Community Medical Center | Toms River | not published | $66.44 – $946.00 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | not published | $70.35 – $946.00 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | not published | $128.20 – $946.00 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | not published | not published |