Exchange drainage catheter at Jersey City Medical Center
355 Grand St, Jersey City, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1689744856
$5,339.00
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.
$6,174.00
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.
$127.92 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey vs $5,604.13 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 |
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| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $127.92 | ↓ -98% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $389.43 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $1,702.78 | ↓ -68% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $1,735.51 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $1,865.16 | ↓ -65% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $2,234.01 | ↓ -58% |
| Humana | Medicare | $2,234.01 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2,234.01 | ↓ -58% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $2,234.01 | ↓ -58% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $2,234.01 | ↓ -58% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $2,234.01 | ↓ -58% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $2,278.69 | ↓ -57% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $2,554.80 | ↓ -52% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $2,768.42 | ↓ -48% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $2,929.56 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $2,952.40 | ↓ -45% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $3,285.18 | ↓ -38% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $3,345.69 | ↓ -37% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $3,417.00 | ↓ -36% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $3,480.90 | ↓ -35% |
| First Health | Commercial | $3,704.40 | ↓ -31% |
| Cigna | HMO | $3,751.32 | ↓ -30% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $3,845.00 | ↓ -28% |
| Cigna | PPO | $3,951.36 | ↓ -26% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $4,020.00 | ↓ -25% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $4,148.00 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | HMO | $4,174.00 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | PPO | $4,174.00 | ↓ -22% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $4,244.62 | ↓ -20% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $4,445.68 | ↓ -17% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $4,523.00 | ↓ -15% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $5,175.04 | ↓ -3% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO/WC | $5,371.38 | ↑ +1% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $5,604.13 | ↑ +5% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | $5,855.00 | $202.80 – $4,146.36 |
| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $6,839.00 | $127.92 – $4,256.54 |
| Community Medical Center | Toms River | $3,786.00 | $127.92 – $4,125.63 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | $3,986.00 | $127.92 – $4,235.26 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $4,881.00 | $127.92 – $4,256.54 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $5,419.00 | $127.92 – $4,178.40 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $2,099.70 | $2,099.70 – $2,519.64 |
| Hackensack University Medical Center | Hackensack | $2,234.01 | $144.07 – $2,345.71 |