Removal of eye lesion at Southern Ocean Medical Center
1140 Route 72 West, Manahawkin, NJ · Hackensack Meridian Health · · NPI 1831601590
$1,058.50
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.
$3,255.00
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.
$585.90 with CLOVER vs $9,933.00 with BRIGHTON HEALTH PLAN — 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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| CLOVER | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $585.90 | ↓ -45% |
| AETNA | MANAGED MEDICAID | $602.18 | ↓ -43% |
| SEOUL MEDICAL GROUP | ALL PRODUCTS | $667.28 | ↓ -37% |
| HORIZON | MANAGED MEDICAID | $903.00 | ↓ -15% |
| WELLCARE | MANAGED MEDICAID | $1,058.50 | ↑ +0% |
| VACCN | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,058.50 | ↑ +0% |
| HORIZON BCBS BRAVEN | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,058.50 | ↑ +0% |
| WELLCARE | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,058.50 | ↑ +0% |
| UNITED COMMUNITY/AMERICHOICE | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,111.42 | ↑ +5% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,153.76 | ↑ +9% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | MANAGED MEDICAID | $1,189.00 | ↑ +12% |
| KARNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,247.06 | ↑ +18% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | DSNP | $1,270.20 | ↑ +20% |
| HORIZON | PIP | $2,119.01 | ↑ +100% |
| HORIZON | WORKERS COMP | $2,187.03 | ↑ +107% |
| CIGNA | HMO | $2,249.00 | ↑ +112% |
| QUALCARE | HMO | $2,255.00 | ↑ +113% |
| HORIZON | OMNIA | $2,350.44 | ↑ +122% |
| BERGEN RISK | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,441.25 | ↑ +131% |
| CIGNA | PPO | $2,518.00 | ↑ +138% |
| AETNA | ASA | $2,548.67 | ↑ +141% |
| CIGNA | BH | $2,604.00 | ↑ +146% |
| MULTIPLAN - PHCS | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,766.75 | ↑ +161% |
| HORIZON | SHP | $2,794.09 | ↑ +164% |
| AMERIHEALTH | LOCAL HMO | $2,826.64 | ↑ +167% |
| HORIZON | INDEMNITY | $2,896.95 | ↑ +174% |
| HORIZON | HMO | $2,898.90 | ↑ +174% |
| QUALCARE | PPO | $2,955.54 | ↑ +179% |
| QUALCARE | WORKERS COMP | $2,955.54 | ↑ +179% |
| HORIZON | PPO | $2,975.72 | ↑ +181% |
| AMERIHEALTH | REGIONAL HMO | $3,201.62 | ↑ +202% |
| OXFORD | ALL PRODUCTS | $6,189.00 | ↑ +485% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | HMO | $7,601.00 | ↑ +618% |
| AETNA | PPO | $9,383.00 | ↑ +786% |
| AETNA | HMO | $9,383.00 | ↑ +786% |
| BRIGHTON HEALTH PLAN | ALL PRODUCTS | $9,933.00 | ↑ +838% |
| AMERIGROUP | MANAGED MEDICAID | not published by hospital | — |
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| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $5,419.00 | $693.39 – $2,133.36 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $1,072.04 | $1,072.04 – $1,286.45 |