Cytopath smear other source at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
1 Robert Wood Johnson Pl, New Brunswick, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1346243375
$27.30
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.
$128.00
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.
$11.48 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey vs $219.98 with Cigna — 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 | $11.48 | ↓ -58% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $11.73 | ↓ -57% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $11.73 | ↓ -57% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $12.64 | ↓ -54% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $12.64 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $19.03 | ↓ -30% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $28.42 | ↑ +4% |
| Humana | Medicare | $28.42 | ↑ +4% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $28.42 | ↑ +4% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $28.42 | ↑ +4% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $28.42 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $28.42 | ↑ +4% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $28.99 | ↑ +6% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $36.19 | ↑ +33% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $36.19 | ↑ +33% |
| Qualcare Inc | WC | $48.64 | ↑ +78% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO | $48.64 | ↑ +78% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $48.64 | ↑ +78% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $56.56 | ↑ +107% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $59.68 | ↑ +119% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $63.23 | ↑ +132% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $63.23 | ↑ +132% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $63.23 | ↑ +132% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $63.23 | ↑ +132% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $68.21 | ↑ +150% |
| First Health | Commercial | $76.80 | ↑ +181% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $77.95 | ↑ +186% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $92.54 | ↑ +239% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $96.65 | ↑ +254% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $106.49 | ↑ +290% |
| Aetna | PPO | $116.11 | ↑ +325% |
| Aetna | HMO | $116.11 | ↑ +325% |
| Cigna | HMO | $219.98 | ↑ +706% |
| Cigna | PPO | $219.98 | ↑ +706% |
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Cytopath smear other source at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | $42.42 | $7.76 – $219.98 |
| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $27.12 | $11.48 – $219.98 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | $38.58 | $11.48 – $219.98 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $26.66 | $11.48 – $219.98 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | $46.96 | $10.05 – $219.98 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $49.44 | $11.48 – $219.98 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $27.11 | $27.11 – $50.64 |
| Hackensack University Medical Center | Hackensack | $28.84 | $10.41 – $153.81 |