Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) X-ray at Monmouth Medical Center
300 2nd Ave, Long Branch, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1609983790
$116.62
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.
$533.00
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.
$36.08 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey vs $515.46 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.
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 |
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| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $36.08 | ↓ -69% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $51.75 | ↓ -56% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $51.75 | ↓ -56% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $64.62 | ↓ -45% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $64.62 | ↓ -45% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $64.62 | ↓ -45% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $64.62 | ↓ -45% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $73.00 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | PPO | $76.53 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | HMO | $76.53 | ↓ -34% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $117.70 | ↑ +1% |
| Humana | Medicare | $117.70 | ↑ +1% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $117.70 | ↑ +1% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $117.70 | ↑ +1% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $117.70 | ↑ +1% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $117.70 | ↑ +1% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $118.54 | ↑ +2% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $132.45 | ↑ +14% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $135.00 | ↑ +16% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $143.22 | ↑ +23% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $143.22 | ↑ +23% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $145.08 | ↑ +24% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $152.64 | ↑ +31% |
| Cigna | PPO | $152.64 | ↑ +31% |
| Cigna | HMO | $152.64 | ↑ +31% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $177.09 | ↑ +52% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $177.09 | ↑ +52% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $205.98 | ↑ +77% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $234.22 | ↑ +101% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $303.81 | ↑ +161% |
| First Health | Commercial | $319.80 | ↑ +174% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO/WC | $436.52 | ↑ +274% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $501.81 | ↑ +330% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $515.46 | ↑ +342% |
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Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) X-ray at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | $100.04 | $20.82 – $232.44 |
| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $112.94 | $36.08 – $238.62 |
| Community Medical Center | Toms River | $110.54 | $36.08 – $231.28 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | $106.01 | $36.08 – $237.43 |
| Childrens Specialized Hospital | Mountainside | $145.50 | $22.00 – $655.00 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $111.02 | $21.43 – $238.62 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | $110.75 | $26.94 – $249.21 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $117.70 | $50.46 – $295.04 |