Laser treatment of retina at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton
1 Hamilton Health Pl, Hamilton Township, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1629069638
$5,110.00
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.
not published by hospital
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.
$816.23 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey vs $19,451.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $816.23 | ↓ -84% |
| Humana | Medicare | $4,396.50 | ↓ -14% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $4,396.50 | ↓ -14% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $4,396.50 | ↓ -14% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $4,396.50 | ↓ -14% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $4,396.50 | ↓ -14% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $4,396.50 | ↓ -14% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $4,484.43 | ↓ -12% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $5,056.00 | ↓ -1% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $5,934.00 | ↑ +16% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $5,948.00 | ↑ +16% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $6,981.00 | ↑ +37% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $7,534.00 | ↑ +47% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $7,693.88 | ↑ +51% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $8,749.04 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | HMO | $9,184.00 | ↑ +80% |
| Aetna | PPO | $9,184.00 | ↑ +80% |
| Cigna | HMO | $9,573.00 | ↑ +87% |
| Cigna | PPO | $10,083.00 | ↑ +97% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $15,560.53 | ↑ +205% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $17,883.64 | ↑ +250% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $19,053.11 | ↑ +273% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $19,451.00 | ↑ +281% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | not published by hospital | — |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | not published by hospital | — |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS/PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Qualcare Inc | WC | not published by hospital | — |
| First Health | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Better Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | not published by hospital | — |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | $5,855.00 | $522.92 – $8,793.00 |
| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $6,839.00 | $857.56 – $9,026.66 |
| Community Medical Center | Toms River | $3,786.00 | $878.22 – $8,749.04 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | $3,986.00 | $847.22 – $8,981.53 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $4,881.00 | $538.30 – $9,026.66 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | $5,339.00 | $676.72 – $9,427.74 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $5,419.00 | $1,694.45 – $8,860.95 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $4,452.74 | $4,452.74 – $5,343.29 |