Histochemical stains add-on at Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus
600 River Ave, Lakewood, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1225133473
$88.89
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.
$374.00
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.
$19.68 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey vs $363.19 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 | $19.68 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $33.45 | ↓ -62% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $33.45 | ↓ -62% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $41.49 | ↓ -53% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $41.49 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $75.73 | ↓ -15% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $76.08 | ↓ -14% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $77.34 | ↓ -13% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $77.34 | ↓ -13% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $77.53 | ↓ -13% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $79.35 | ↓ -11% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $79.35 | ↓ -11% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $79.35 | ↓ -11% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $79.35 | ↓ -11% |
| Aetna | PPO | $111.89 | ↑ +26% |
| Aetna | HMO | $111.89 | ↑ +26% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $213.18 | ↑ +140% |
| First Health | Commercial | $224.40 | ↑ +152% |
| Cigna | HMO | $276.08 | ↑ +211% |
| Cigna | PPO | $276.08 | ↑ +211% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $276.08 | ↑ +211% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $287.23 | ↑ +223% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO/WC | $306.30 | ↑ +245% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $356.72 | ↑ +301% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $363.19 | ↑ +309% |
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Histochemical stains add-on at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | $70.19 | $12.24 – $583.89 |
| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $37.93 | $19.68 – $276.08 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | $56.68 | $19.68 – $276.08 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $37.28 | $19.68 – $276.08 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | $77.71 | $15.84 – $276.08 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $81.83 | $19.68 – $276.08 |
| Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset | Somerville | $48.16 | $12.96 – $276.08 |
| Community Medical Center | Toms River | not published | $19.68 – $276.08 |