Excise lip or cheek fold 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

$5,419.00

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.

$2,244.00

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.

$146.94 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey vs $4,523.00 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.

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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 NJ Health $146.94 ↓ -97%
United Healthcare Community Plan $557.63 ↓ -90%
Fidelis Care NJ Family Care $568.40 ↓ -90%
Aetna Better Health $610.81 ↓ -89%
Amerihealth Local Value $1,256.41 ↓ -77%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Omnia $1,292.99 ↓ -76%
First Health Commercial $1,346.40 ↓ -75%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey State Benefit Plan $1,469.14 ↓ -73%
Amerihealth Regional Preferred $1,479.69 ↓ -73%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Managed $1,556.88 ↓ -71%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Non-Managed $1,571.69 ↓ -71%
Wellpoint Medicare Advantage $1,639.57 ↓ -70%
Humana Medicare $1,639.57 ↓ -70%
Aetna Medicare $1,639.57 ↓ -70%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Medicare Advantage $1,639.57 ↓ -70%
Fidelis Care Medicare Advantage $1,639.57 ↓ -70%
Clover Health Medicare Advantage $1,639.57 ↓ -70%
United Healthcare Medicare $1,651.24 ↓ -70%
Cigna Local Plus $1,893.00 ↓ -65%
Qualcare Inc PPO/WC $1,952.28 ↓ -64%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Worker's Comp $2,112.72 ↓ -61%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey PIP $2,170.17 ↓ -60%
Cigna HMO $2,405.00 ↓ -56%
Cigna PPO $2,533.00 ↓ -53%
Emblem Health Commercial $2,869.25 ↓ -47%
Wellcare Ambetter Health Commercial $3,262.74 ↓ -40%
Wellpoint NJ Family Care $3,266.00 ↓ -40%
United Healthcare Oxford Metro $3,417.00 ↓ -37%
United Healthcare Nexus $3,845.00 ↓ -29%
United Healthcare Oxford Commercial $4,020.00 ↓ -26%
Qualcare Inc HMO/POS $4,148.00 ↓ -23%
Aetna HMO $4,294.00 ↓ -21%
Aetna PPO $4,294.00 ↓ -21%
United Healthcare Commercial $4,523.00 ↓ -17%

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Excise lip or cheek fold at other New-jersey hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Trinitas Regional Medical Center Elizabeth $5,855.00 $27.96 – $3,237.72
Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center Livingston $6,839.00 $74.37 – $3,323.76
Community Medical Center Toms River $3,786.00 $76.16 – $3,221.53
Clara Maass Medical Center Belleville $3,986.00 $73.47 – $3,307.14
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Newark $4,881.00 $28.78 – $3,323.76
Jersey City Medical Center Jersey City $5,339.00 $36.18 – $3,471.44
Bayshore Medical Center Holmdel $1,639.57 $1,639.57 – $1,967.48
Hackensack University Medical Center Hackensack $1,744.44 $434.55 – $1,831.67

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