Red blood cells each unit at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center
94 Old Short Hills Rd, Livingston, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1396857488
$120.57
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.
$569.00
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.
$98.66 with Aetna 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Better Health | $98.66 | ↓ -18% |
| Humana | Medicare | $161.92 | ↑ +34% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $161.92 | ↑ +34% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $161.92 | ↑ +34% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $161.92 | ↑ +34% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $161.92 | ↑ +34% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $161.92 | ↑ +34% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $165.16 | ↑ +37% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $188.62 | ↑ +56% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $312.55 | ↑ +159% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $322.22 | ↑ +167% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $323.84 | ↑ +169% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $324.33 | ↑ +169% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $327.11 | ↑ +171% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $333.14 | ↑ +176% |
| First Health | Commercial | $341.40 | ↑ +183% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $352.55 | ↑ +192% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $352.55 | ↑ +192% |
| Cigna | HMO | $392.78 | ↑ +226% |
| Cigna | PPO | $413.71 | ↑ +243% |
| Aetna | HMO | $415.37 | ↑ +245% |
| Aetna | PPO | $415.37 | ↑ +245% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $436.99 | ↑ +262% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO/WC | $466.01 | ↑ +287% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $483.65 | ↑ +301% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $483.65 | ↑ +301% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $2,199.00 | ↑ +1724% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $2,199.00 | ↑ +1724% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $2,587.00 | ↑ +2046% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $2,587.00 | ↑ +2046% |
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| Riverview Medical Center | Red Bank | $159.74 | $159.74 – $361.00 |