Comprehensive hearing test at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center
94 Old Short Hills Rd, Livingston, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1396857488
$145.15
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.
$685.00
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.
$108.43 with United Healthcare vs $582.25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $108.43 | ↓ -25% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $110.55 | ↓ -24% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $118.77 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $175.54 | ↑ +21% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $175.54 | ↑ +21% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $175.54 | ↑ +21% |
| Humana | Medicare | $175.54 | ↑ +21% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $175.54 | ↑ +21% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $175.54 | ↑ +21% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $179.05 | ↑ +23% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $205.84 | ↑ +42% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $227.07 | ↑ +56% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $282.00 | ↑ +94% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $282.00 | ↑ +94% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $332.00 | ↑ +129% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $332.00 | ↑ +129% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $349.32 | ↑ +141% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $351.08 | ↑ +142% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $376.27 | ↑ +159% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $390.45 | ↑ +169% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $393.80 | ↑ +171% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $401.06 | ↑ +176% |
| First Health | Commercial | $411.00 | ↑ +183% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $424.42 | ↑ +192% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $424.42 | ↑ +192% |
| Cigna | HMO | $472.85 | ↑ +226% |
| Cigna | PPO | $498.06 | ↑ +243% |
| Aetna | HMO | $500.05 | ↑ +245% |
| Aetna | PPO | $500.05 | ↑ +245% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $526.08 | ↑ +262% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO/WC | $561.01 | ↑ +287% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $582.25 | ↑ +301% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $582.25 | ↑ +301% |
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Comprehensive hearing test at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Childrens Specialized Hospital | Mountainside | $307.00 | $270.32 – $394.00 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $142.68 | $19.05 – $351.08 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | $142.34 | $23.94 – $366.68 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $149.87 | $173.18 – $344.63 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $173.18 | $173.18 – $465.00 |
| Hackensack University Medical Center | Hackensack | $184.26 | $53.61 – $487.00 |
| Ocean University Medical Center | Brick | $170.99 | $51.87 – $499.00 |
| JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute (JRI) | Edison | $173.33 | $53.61 – $627.00 |