Assess cyst contrast inject at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
1 Robert Wood Johnson Pl, New Brunswick, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1346243375
$5,741.00
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.
$674.00
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.
$67.24 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey vs $4,370.00 with Aetna — 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 | $67.24 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $91.52 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $100.22 | ↓ -98% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $107.84 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $235.83 | ↓ -96% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $323.25 | ↓ -94% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $355.19 | ↓ -94% |
| First Health | Commercial | $404.40 | ↓ -93% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $489.25 | ↓ -91% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $508.93 | ↓ -91% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $516.41 | ↓ -91% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $521.27 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $545.40 | ↓ -90% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $560.76 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $2,929.00 | ↓ -49% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $3,093.00 | ↓ -46% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $3,446.00 | ↓ -40% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $3,639.00 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | PPO | $4,370.00 | ↓ -24% |
| Aetna | HMO | $4,370.00 | ↓ -24% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | not published by hospital | — |
| Qualcare Inc | WC | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Community Medical Center | Toms River | $3,786.00 | $67.24 – $67.24 |
| Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus | Lakewood | $4,350.00 | $67.24 – $67.24 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | not published | $67.24 – $67.24 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | not published | not published |
| Hackensack University Medical Center | Hackensack | not published | $76.36 – $76.36 |
| Ocean University Medical Center | Brick | not published | $74.41 – $74.41 |
| JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute (JRI) | Edison | not published | $76.36 – $76.36 |
| Jersey Shore University Medical Center | Neptune City | not published | $74.41 – $74.41 |