Treatment inhalation pressurized/nonpressurized acute airway obstruction at Childrens Specialized Hospital
150 New Providence Rd, Mountainside, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1396886297
$121.50
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.
$243.00
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.
$24.30 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey vs $464.00 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 | $24.30 | ↓ -80% |
| First Health | Commercial | $145.80 | ↑ +20% |
| Cigna | HMO | $146.35 | ↑ +20% |
| Cigna | PPO | $146.35 | ↑ +20% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $165.24 | ↑ +36% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $184.09 | ↑ +52% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $184.09 | ↑ +52% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $185.79 | ↑ +53% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $185.79 | ↑ +53% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $185.79 | ↑ +53% |
| Aetna | HMO | $187.11 | ↑ +54% |
| Aetna | PPO | $187.11 | ↑ +54% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO | $189.54 | ↑ +56% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO | $189.54 | ↑ +56% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $191.36 | ↑ +57% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $238.14 | ↑ +96% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $238.14 | ↑ +96% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $394.00 | ↑ +224% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $394.00 | ↑ +224% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $464.00 | ↑ +282% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $464.00 | ↑ +282% |
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Treatment inhalation pressurized/nonpressurized acute airway obstruction at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | $120.31 | $96.57 – $444.56 |
| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $137.52 | $61.42 – $456.38 |
| Community Medical Center | Toms River | $132.94 | $62.90 – $442.34 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | $102.03 | $60.68 – $454.10 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $135.18 | $111.37 – $456.38 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | $133.19 | $66.60 – $476.64 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $140.25 | $121.36 – $447.99 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $225.12 | $225.12 – $770.00 |