X-ray spine single view at Jersey City Medical Center
355 Grand St, Jersey City, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1689744856
$65.66
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.
$316.00
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.
$16.35 with Wellpoint vs $286.83 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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| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $16.35 | ↓ -75% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $19.99 | ↓ -70% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $27.86 | ↓ -58% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $27.86 | ↓ -58% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $27.86 | ↓ -58% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $27.86 | ↓ -58% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $32.17 | ↓ -51% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $32.17 | ↓ -51% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $39.95 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | PPO | $45.19 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna | HMO | $45.19 | ↓ -31% |
| Cigna | HMO | $86.64 | ↑ +32% |
| Cigna | PPO | $86.64 | ↑ +32% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $86.64 | ↑ +32% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $87.15 | ↑ +33% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $88.82 | ↑ +35% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $95.46 | ↑ +45% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $103.69 | ↑ +58% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $103.69 | ↑ +58% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $103.69 | ↑ +58% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $103.69 | ↑ +58% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $103.69 | ↑ +58% |
| Humana | Medicare | $103.69 | ↑ +58% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $105.76 | ↑ +61% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $116.42 | ↑ +77% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $116.42 | ↑ +77% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $126.10 | ↑ +92% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $126.10 | ↑ +92% |
| First Health | Commercial | $189.60 | ↑ +189% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $197.01 | ↑ +200% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $206.34 | ↑ +214% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO/WC | $223.41 | ↑ +240% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $264.87 | ↑ +303% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $286.83 | ↑ +337% |
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X-ray spine single view at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | $59.31 | $12.64 – $192.46 |
| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $66.96 | $19.99 – $197.58 |
| Community Medical Center | Toms River | $65.53 | $19.99 – $191.50 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | $94.47 | $19.99 – $196.59 |
| Childrens Specialized Hospital | Mountainside | $121.00 | $12.19 – $655.00 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $65.82 | $13.01 – $197.58 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $69.14 | $19.99 – $193.95 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $97.46 | $31.34 – $219.04 |