Pr tube thoracostomy w/connection to drainage open at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center
94 Old Short Hills Rd, Livingston, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1396857488
$6,839.00
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.
$2,690.00
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.
$425.82 with United Healthcare vs $5,521.00 with Aetna — 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 | $425.82 | ↓ -94% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $434.16 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $466.44 | ↓ -93% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $891.73 | ↓ -87% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $1,477.61 | ↓ -78% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $1,546.48 | ↓ -77% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $1,574.99 | ↓ -77% |
| First Health | Commercial | $1,614.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $1,742.84 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | Medicare | $1,742.84 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,742.84 | ↓ -75% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $1,742.84 | ↓ -75% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $1,742.84 | ↓ -75% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $1,742.84 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,777.70 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | HMO | $2,039.00 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | PPO | $2,148.00 | ↓ -69% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $2,286.50 | ↓ -67% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $2,286.50 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $2,678.00 | ↓ -61% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $2,699.00 | ↓ -61% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $2,843.00 | ↓ -58% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $3,151.00 | ↓ -54% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $3,266.00 | ↓ -52% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $3,345.00 | ↓ -51% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $3,468.25 | ↓ -49% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $3,485.68 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | HMO | $5,521.00 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | PPO | $5,521.00 | ↓ -19% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | not published by hospital | — |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | not published by hospital | — |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO/WC | not published by hospital | — |
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