Visual audiometry (vra) at Monmouth Medical Center
300 2nd Ave, Long Branch, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1609983790
$130.62
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.
$597.00
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.
$148.35 with United Healthcare vs $577.35 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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| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $148.35 | ↑ +14% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $151.22 | ↑ +16% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $162.50 | ↑ +24% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $173.18 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Medicare | $173.18 | ↑ +33% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $173.18 | ↑ +33% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $173.18 | ↑ +33% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $173.18 | ↑ +33% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $173.18 | ↑ +33% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $174.41 | ↑ +34% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $282.00 | ↑ +116% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $282.00 | ↑ +116% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $291.93 | ↑ +123% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $303.07 | ↑ +132% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $332.00 | ↑ +154% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $332.00 | ↑ +154% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $340.29 | ↑ +161% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $343.99 | ↑ +163% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $344.63 | ↑ +164% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $347.68 | ↑ +166% |
| First Health | Commercial | $358.20 | ↑ +174% |
| Aetna | HMO | $358.20 | ↑ +174% |
| Aetna | PPO | $358.20 | ↑ +174% |
| Cigna | HMO | $370.91 | ↑ +184% |
| Cigna | PPO | $370.91 | ↑ +184% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $390.85 | ↑ +199% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $414.19 | ↑ +217% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $418.13 | ↑ +220% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $445.60 | ↑ +241% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $445.60 | ↑ +241% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $458.49 | ↑ +251% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO/WC | $488.94 | ↑ +274% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $562.07 | ↑ +330% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $577.35 | ↑ +342% |
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Visual audiometry (vra) at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $126.50 | $175.54 – $351.08 |
| Childrens Specialized Hospital | Mountainside | $255.50 | $231.08 – $394.00 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $124.35 | $175.54 – $351.08 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | $124.05 | $184.26 – $366.68 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $173.18 | $173.18 – $465.00 |
| Hackensack University Medical Center | Hackensack | $184.26 | $62.16 – $487.00 |
| Ocean University Medical Center | Brick | $170.99 | $60.14 – $499.00 |
| JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute (JRI) | Edison | $173.33 | $62.16 – $627.00 |