Chest X-ray (single view) at Childrens Specialized Hospital
150 New Providence Rd, Mountainside, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1396886297
$105.00
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.
$210.00
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.
$12.25 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey vs $770.00 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.
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 | $12.25 | ↓ -88% |
| First Health | Commercial | $126.00 | ↑ +20% |
| Cigna | HMO | $126.48 | ↑ +20% |
| Cigna | PPO | $126.48 | ↑ +20% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $142.80 | ↑ +36% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $159.09 | ↑ +52% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $159.09 | ↑ +52% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $160.56 | ↑ +53% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $160.56 | ↑ +53% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $160.56 | ↑ +53% |
| Aetna | HMO | $161.70 | ↑ +54% |
| Aetna | PPO | $161.70 | ↑ +54% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO | $163.80 | ↑ +56% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO | $163.80 | ↑ +56% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $165.37 | ↑ +57% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $205.80 | ↑ +96% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $205.80 | ↑ +96% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $655.00 | ↑ +524% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $655.00 | ↑ +524% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $770.00 | ↑ +633% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $770.00 | ↑ +633% |
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Chest X-ray (single view) at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Carrier Clinic | Belle Mead | $171.60 | $62.21 – $62.21 |
| Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | $92.72 | $13.32 – $192.46 |
| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $104.67 | $18.99 – $197.58 |
| Community Medical Center | Toms River | $102.45 | $18.99 – $191.50 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | $84.73 | $18.99 – $196.59 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $102.90 | $13.71 – $197.58 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | $102.65 | $17.24 – $206.34 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $108.08 | $20.09 – $193.95 |