Comprehensive hearing test at Jersey City Medical Center
355 Grand St, Jersey City, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1689744856
$142.34
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.
$685.00
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.
$23.94 with Wellpoint vs $621.77 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $23.94 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | Medicare | $184.26 | ↑ +29% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $184.26 | ↑ +29% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $184.26 | ↑ +29% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $184.26 | ↑ +29% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $184.26 | ↑ +29% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $184.26 | ↑ +29% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $187.95 | ↑ +32% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $188.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $192.55 | ↑ +35% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $206.93 | ↑ +45% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $223.20 | ↑ +57% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $282.00 | ↑ +98% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $282.00 | ↑ +98% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $307.15 | ↑ +116% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $332.00 | ↑ +133% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $332.00 | ↑ +133% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $350.09 | ↑ +146% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $364.35 | ↑ +156% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $364.48 | ↑ +156% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $366.68 | ↑ +158% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $371.20 | ↑ +161% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $386.20 | ↑ +171% |
| Aetna | PPO | $404.15 | ↑ +184% |
| Aetna | HMO | $404.15 | ↑ +184% |
| First Health | Commercial | $411.00 | ↑ +189% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $416.82 | ↑ +193% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $416.82 | ↑ +193% |
| Cigna | HMO | $462.92 | ↑ +225% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $484.29 | ↑ +240% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO/WC | $484.29 | ↑ +240% |
| Cigna | PPO | $487.58 | ↑ +243% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $574.16 | ↑ +303% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $621.77 | ↑ +337% |
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Comprehensive hearing test at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $145.15 | $175.54 – $351.08 |
| Childrens Specialized Hospital | Mountainside | $307.00 | $270.32 – $394.00 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $142.68 | $19.05 – $351.08 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $149.87 | $173.18 – $344.63 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $173.18 | $173.18 – $465.00 |
| Hackensack University Medical Center | Hackensack | $184.26 | $53.61 – $487.00 |
| Ocean University Medical Center | Brick | $170.99 | $51.87 – $499.00 |
| JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute (JRI) | Edison | $173.33 | $53.61 – $627.00 |