Open bx of lung pleura 32098 at Jersey Shore University Medical Center

1945 NJ-33, Neptune City, NJ · Hackensack Meridian Health · · NPI 1790297547

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Dec 31, 2025 · Ingested Sep 4, 2026

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Cash price

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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.

$2,295.00

Gross charge

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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.

$380.97 with AETNA vs $14,615.00 with HORIZON — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
AETNA MANAGED MEDICAID $380.97
CLOVER MEDICARE ADVANTAGE $413.10
AETNA MEDICARE ADVANTAGE $486.54
SEOUL MEDICAL GROUP ALL PRODUCTS $530.15
HORIZON BCBS BRAVEN MEDICARE ADVANTAGE $532.44
KARNA MEDICARE ADVANTAGE $1,541.84
BEACON ALL PRODUCTS $1,721.25
BERGEN RISK ALL PRODUCTS $1,721.25
HORIZON PIP $1,748.79
QUALCARE PPO $1,783.22
AETNA ASA $1,796.99
HORIZON OMNIA $1,820.85
HORIZON MANAGED MEDICAID $1,827.00
CIGNA BH $1,836.00
ACTIVECARE FIRST MCO ALL PRODUCTS $1,950.75
MULTIPLAN - PHCS ALL PRODUCTS $1,950.75
AMERIHEALTH LOCAL HMO $2,004.91
QUALCARE WORKERS COMP $2,019.60
CIGNA PPO $2,062.98
CIGNA HMO $2,062.98
HORIZON SHP $2,227.76
HORIZON HMO $2,239.46
HORIZON INDEMNITY $2,264.02
AMERIHEALTH REGIONAL HMO $2,270.67
HORIZON PPO $2,295.00
UNITED HEALTHCARE MANAGED MEDICAID $2,379.00
QUALCARE HMO $6,256.00
OXFORD ALL PRODUCTS $7,978.00
UNITED HEALTHCARE HMO $9,613.00
BRIGHTON HEALTH PLAN ALL PRODUCTS $10,163.00
AETNA HMO $10,202.00
AETNA PPO $10,202.00
HORIZON WORKERS COMP $14,615.00
UBH ALL PRODUCTS not published by hospital
WELLCARE MEDICARE ADVANTAGE not published by hospital
AMERIGROUP MANAGED MEDICAID not published by hospital
UNITED COMMUNITY/AMERICHOICE MEDICARE ADVANTAGE not published by hospital
UNITED HEALTHCARE DSNP not published by hospital
VACCN ALL PRODUCTS not published by hospital
WELLCARE MANAGED MEDICAID not published by hospital

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Open bx of lung pleura 32098 at other New-jersey hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Trinitas Regional Medical Center Elizabeth not published $379.34 – $379.34
Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center Livingston not published $543.83 – $543.83
Community Medical Center Toms River not published $556.94 – $556.94
Clara Maass Medical Center Belleville not published $537.28 – $537.28
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Newark not published $390.50 – $986.11
Jersey City Medical Center Jersey City not published $490.91 – $589.70
Monmouth Medical Center Long Branch not published $1,074.56 – $1,074.56
Bayshore Medical Center Holmdel not published not published

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