Platelets each unit at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center
94 Old Short Hills Rd, Livingston, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1396857488
$376.75
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.
$1,778.00
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.
$85.22 with Clover Health vs $2,587.00 with United Healthcare — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $85.22 | ↓ -77% |
| Humana | Medicare | $85.22 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $85.22 | ↓ -77% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $85.22 | ↓ -77% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $85.22 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $85.22 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $86.92 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $169.59 | ↓ -55% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $170.44 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $308.30 | ↓ -18% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $589.40 | ↑ +56% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $976.65 | ↑ +159% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $1,013.46 | ↑ +169% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $1,022.17 | ↑ +171% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $1,041.01 | ↑ +176% |
| First Health | Commercial | $1,066.80 | ↑ +183% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $1,101.64 | ↑ +192% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $1,101.64 | ↑ +192% |
| Cigna | HMO | $1,227.35 | ↑ +226% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,292.78 | ↑ +243% |
| Aetna | HMO | $1,297.94 | ↑ +245% |
| Aetna | PPO | $1,297.94 | ↑ +245% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $1,365.50 | ↑ +262% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO/WC | $1,456.18 | ↑ +287% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $1,511.30 | ↑ +301% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $1,511.30 | ↑ +301% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $2,199.00 | ↑ +484% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $2,199.00 | ↑ +484% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $2,587.00 | ↑ +587% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $2,587.00 | ↑ +587% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | $333.73 | $83.02 – $166.04 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | $353.64 | $85.22 – $169.59 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $370.35 | $85.22 – $170.44 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | $369.46 | $89.46 – $178.03 |
| JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute (JRI) | Edison | $84.15 | $75.96 – $382.00 |
| Jersey Shore University Medical Center | Neptune City | $84.08 | $84.08 – $380.00 |
| Palisades Medical Center | North Bergen | $89.46 | $89.46 – $907.00 |
| Raritan Bay Medical Center | Perth Amboy | $84.15 | $84.15 – $353.00 |