Echocardiography doppler color flow mapping at Monmouth Medical Center

300 2nd Ave, Long Branch, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1609983790

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 4, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$250.30

Cash price

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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.

$1,144.00

Gross charge

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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.

$89.42 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey vs $1,106.36 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Omnia $89.42 ↓ -64%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Managed $89.42 ↓ -64%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey State Benefit Plan $89.42 ↓ -64%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Non-Managed $89.42 ↓ -64%
United Healthcare Community Plan $284.28 ↑ +14%
Fidelis Care NJ Family Care $289.77 ↑ +16%
Aetna Better Health $311.39 ↑ +24%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey NJ Health $649.44 ↑ +159%
Wellpoint NJ Family Care $652.08 ↑ +161%
Aetna HMO $686.40 ↑ +174%
Aetna PPO $686.40 ↑ +174%
First Health Commercial $686.40 ↑ +174%
United Healthcare Nexus $719.00 ↑ +187%
United Healthcare Oxford Metro $719.00 ↑ +187%
United Healthcare Commercial $846.00 ↑ +238%
United Healthcare Oxford Commercial $846.00 ↑ +238%
Amerihealth Regional Preferred $853.88 ↑ +241%
Amerihealth Local Value $853.88 ↑ +241%
Qualcare Inc HMO/POS $878.59 ↑ +251%
Qualcare Inc PPO/WC $936.93 ↑ +274%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Worker's Comp $1,077.07 ↑ +330%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey PIP $1,106.36 ↑ +342%

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Echocardiography doppler color flow mapping at other New-jersey hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Trinitas Regional Medical Center Elizabeth $214.72 $12.21 – $719.00
Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center Livingston $460.45 $67.07 – $719.00
Community Medical Center Toms River $237.26 $67.07 – $719.00
Clara Maass Medical Center Belleville $177.21 $67.07 – $719.00
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Newark $452.63 $12.57 – $67.07
Jersey City Medical Center Jersey City $237.72 $15.80 – $719.00
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton Hamilton Township $242.57 $312.84 – $719.00
Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus Lakewood $271.92 $89.42 – $719.00

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