Insert brain-fluid device 61215 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.
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.
$301.30 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey vs $15,008.22 with Wellcare — 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 | $301.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $351.52 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $2,577.00 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | HMO | $3,274.00 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna | PPO | $3,448.00 | ↓ -35% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $5,822.00 | ↑ +9% |
| Aetna | PPO | $5,845.00 | ↑ +9% |
| Aetna | HMO | $5,845.00 | ↑ +9% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $6,599.00 | ↑ +24% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $7,541.82 | ↑ +41% |
| Humana | Medicare | $7,541.82 | ↑ +41% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $7,541.82 | ↑ +41% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $7,541.82 | ↑ +41% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $7,541.82 | ↑ +41% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $7,541.82 | ↑ +41% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $7,692.66 | ↑ +44% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $7,763.00 | ↑ +45% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $8,771.00 | ↑ +64% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $10,319.00 | ↑ +93% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $14,329.46 | ↑ +168% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $15,008.22 | ↑ +181% |
| First Health | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Better Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | not published by hospital | — |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | not published by hospital | — |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | not published by hospital | — |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | not published by hospital | — |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | not published by hospital | — |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | not published by hospital | — |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | not published by hospital | — |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | not published by hospital | — |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO/WC | not published by hospital | — |
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| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | $3,986.00 | $274.52 – $14,297.85 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $4,881.00 | $279.62 – $14,369.70 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $5,419.00 | $549.04 – $14,105.94 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $7,088.41 | $7,088.41 – $8,506.09 |
| Hackensack University Medical Center | Hackensack | $7,541.82 | $1,139.02 – $7,918.91 |