Bundle his recording at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
1 Robert Wood Johnson Pl, New Brunswick, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1346243375
$2,096.95
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.
$9,831.00
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.
$167.78 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey vs $18,489.70 with Emblem Health — 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 | $167.78 | ↓ -92% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $168.80 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $1,335.04 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $1,461.86 | ↓ -30% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $1,572.96 | ↓ -25% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $3,439.86 | ↑ +64% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $3,735.78 | ↑ +78% |
| Qualcare Inc | WC | $3,735.78 | ↑ +78% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO | $3,735.78 | ↑ +78% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $4,094.00 | ↑ +95% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $4,322.00 | ↑ +106% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $4,714.94 | ↑ +125% |
| Cigna | PPO | $4,752.30 | ↑ +127% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $4,816.00 | ↑ +130% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $5,085.00 | ↑ +142% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $5,180.93 | ↑ +147% |
| First Health | Commercial | $5,898.60 | ↑ +181% |
| Cigna | HMO | $6,089.32 | ↑ +190% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $7,136.32 | ↑ +240% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $7,423.38 | ↑ +254% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $7,532.51 | ↑ +259% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $7,603.29 | ↑ +263% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $8,179.39 | ↑ +290% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $8,804.62 | ↑ +320% |
| Humana | Medicare | $8,804.62 | ↑ +320% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $8,804.62 | ↑ +320% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $8,804.62 | ↑ +320% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $8,804.62 | ↑ +320% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $8,804.62 | ↑ +320% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $8,980.71 | ↑ +328% |
| Aetna | HMO | $9,614.00 | ↑ +358% |
| Aetna | PPO | $9,614.00 | ↑ +358% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $17,521.19 | ↑ +736% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $18,489.70 | ↑ +782% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $2,083.18 | $184.44 – $17,026.48 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | $1,955.38 | $182.22 – $16,941.35 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $2,047.79 | $127.05 – $17,026.48 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | $2,042.88 | $159.72 – $17,783.04 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $8,398.96 | $8,398.96 – $10,078.76 |
| Hackensack University Medical Center | Hackensack | $8,936.20 | $737.82 – $9,383.01 |
| Ocean University Medical Center | Brick | $8,292.88 | $104.00 – $9,951.46 |
| JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute (JRI) | Edison | $8,406.25 | $104.00 – $8,406.25 |