Insertion of catheter vein 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.
$2,661.00
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.
$359.10 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey vs $4,174.00 with Aetna — 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 | $359.10 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $733.90 | ↓ -86% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $748.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $803.88 | ↓ -85% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $1,101.12 | ↓ -79% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $1,143.20 | ↓ -79% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $1,193.19 | ↓ -78% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $1,262.64 | ↓ -76% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $1,415.91 | ↓ -73% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $1,441.99 | ↓ -73% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $1,500.27 | ↓ -72% |
| First Health | Commercial | $1,596.60 | ↓ -70% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $1,756.26 | ↓ -67% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $2,230.45 | ↓ -58% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO/WC | $2,315.07 | ↓ -57% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $2,415.38 | ↓ -55% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $2,445.00 | ↓ -54% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $2,751.00 | ↓ -48% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $2,877.00 | ↓ -46% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $3,236.00 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | PPO | $4,174.00 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | HMO | $4,174.00 | ↓ -22% |
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Insertion of catheter vein at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Community Medical Center | Toms River | $3,786.00 | $339.15 – $339.15 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $4,881.00 | $600.50 – $909.36 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $5,419.00 | $654.36 – $654.36 |
| Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus | Lakewood | $4,350.00 | $815.96 – $815.96 |
| Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital | New Brunswick | $5,741.00 | $301.25 – $1,176.89 |
| Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Rahway | Rahway | $4,627.00 | $385.04 – $385.04 |
| Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset | Somerville | $6,311.00 | $301.25 – $935.34 |
| Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | not published | $883.38 – $3,195.47 |