New Patient Office Visit (level 4) at Jersey City Medical Center
355 Grand St, Jersey City, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1689744856
$144.83
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.
$697.00
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.
$95.55 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey vs $632.66 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 | $95.55 | ↓ -34% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $114.81 | ↓ -21% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $192.23 | ↑ +33% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $195.92 | ↑ +35% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $200.73 | ↑ +39% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $200.73 | ↑ +39% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $210.56 | ↑ +45% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $235.58 | ↑ +63% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $235.58 | ↑ +63% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $312.53 | ↑ +116% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $370.73 | ↑ +156% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $370.87 | ↑ +156% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $377.70 | ↑ +161% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $392.96 | ↑ +171% |
| Aetna | HMO | $411.23 | ↑ +184% |
| Aetna | PPO | $411.23 | ↑ +184% |
| First Health | Commercial | $418.20 | ↑ +189% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $424.12 | ↑ +193% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $424.12 | ↑ +193% |
| Cigna | HMO | $471.03 | ↑ +225% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $492.77 | ↑ +240% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO/WC | $492.77 | ↑ +240% |
| Cigna | PPO | $496.12 | ↑ +243% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $584.22 | ↑ +303% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $632.66 | ↑ +337% |
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New Patient Office Visit (level 4) at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | $130.82 | $88.72 – $95.55 |
| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $147.69 | $95.55 – $95.55 |
| Community Medical Center | Toms River | $144.55 | $95.55 – $95.55 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | $138.63 | $95.55 – $95.55 |
| Childrens Specialized Hospital | Mountainside | $413.50 | $261.30 – $261.30 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $145.18 | $91.33 – $95.55 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $152.50 | $95.55 – $95.55 |
| Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton | Hamilton Township | $114.23 | $95.55 – $284.53 |