ER Visit (level 2) at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
1 Robert Wood Johnson Pl, New Brunswick, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1346243375
$458.80
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.
$2,151.00
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.
$50.21 with Wellpoint vs $2,945.00 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey — 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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| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $50.21 | ↓ -89% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $140.00 | ↓ -69% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $183.75 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $183.75 | ↓ -60% |
| Humana | Medicare | $183.75 | ↓ -60% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $183.75 | ↓ -60% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $183.75 | ↓ -60% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $183.75 | ↓ -60% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $187.43 | ↓ -59% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $292.10 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $319.85 | ↓ -30% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $344.16 | ↓ -25% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $365.66 | ↓ -20% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $398.00 | ↓ -13% |
| Cigna | HMO | $400.00 | ↓ -13% |
| Cigna | PPO | $421.00 | ↓ -8% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $577.00 | ↑ +26% |
| Aetna | HMO | $625.00 | ↑ +36% |
| Aetna | PPO | $625.00 | ↑ +36% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $672.00 | ↑ +46% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $679.00 | ↑ +48% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $709.00 | ↑ +55% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $790.00 | ↑ +72% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO | $857.00 | ↑ +87% |
| First Health | Commercial | $1,290.60 | ↑ +181% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $1,358.00 | ↑ +196% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $1,624.22 | ↑ +254% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $1,653.00 | ↑ +260% |
| Qualcare Inc | WC | $1,669.00 | ↑ +264% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $1,698.00 | ↑ +270% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $1,735.00 | ↑ +278% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $2,392.00 | ↑ +421% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $2,918.00 | ↑ +536% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $2,945.00 | ↑ +542% |
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ER Visit (level 2) at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | $267.84 | $20.76 – $400.00 |
| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $324.41 | $177.67 – $1,387.00 |
| Community Medical Center | Toms River | $295.95 | $173.07 – $1,387.00 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | $313.26 | $177.67 – $1,387.00 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $318.90 | $21.37 – $1,387.00 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | $296.53 | $26.86 – $1,387.00 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $312.22 | $175.28 – $1,387.00 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $175.28 | $175.28 – $1,522.00 |