X-ray esophogram chest radiograph(s) & delayed images single contrast study at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton
1 Hamilton Health Pl, Hamilton Township, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1629069638
$146.52
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.
$894.00
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.
$45.92 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey vs $860.73 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 | $45.92 | ↓ -69% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $87.16 | ↓ -41% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $93.70 | ↓ -36% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $108.71 | ↓ -26% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $111.83 | ↓ -24% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $119.08 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | PPO | $173.54 | ↑ +18% |
| Aetna | HMO | $173.54 | ↑ +18% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $194.55 | ↑ +33% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $194.55 | ↑ +33% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $194.55 | ↑ +33% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $194.55 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Medicare | $194.55 | ↑ +33% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $194.55 | ↑ +33% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $198.44 | ↑ +35% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $241.66 | ↑ +65% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $241.66 | ↑ +65% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $287.91 | ↑ +96% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $287.91 | ↑ +96% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $340.46 | ↑ +132% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $361.06 | ↑ +146% |
| Cigna | HMO | $361.06 | ↑ +146% |
| Cigna | PPO | $361.06 | ↑ +146% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $387.15 | ↑ +164% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $512.35 | ↑ +250% |
| First Health | Commercial | $536.40 | ↑ +266% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $688.57 | ↑ +370% |
| Qualcare Inc | WC | $745.59 | ↑ +409% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS/PPO | $745.59 | ↑ +409% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $759.90 | ↑ +419% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $791.37 | ↑ +440% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $843.12 | ↑ +475% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $860.73 | ↑ +487% |
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| Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | $205.34 | $50.60 – $389.10 |
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| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $187.67 | $45.92 – $399.44 |
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| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $239.36 | $45.92 – $392.11 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $197.04 | $89.00 – $483.42 |