Esoph balloon distension tst at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
1 Robert Wood Johnson Pl, New Brunswick, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1346243375
$483.97
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.
$2,269.00
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.
$308.13 with United Healthcare 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $308.13 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $337.40 | ↓ -30% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $363.04 | ↓ -25% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $408.42 | ↓ -16% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $615.67 | ↑ +27% |
| Humana | Medicare | $615.67 | ↑ +27% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $615.67 | ↑ +27% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $615.67 | ↑ +27% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $615.67 | ↑ +27% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $615.67 | ↑ +27% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $627.98 | ↑ +30% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $748.61 | ↑ +55% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $793.92 | ↑ +64% |
| Qualcare Inc | WC | $862.22 | ↑ +78% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO | $862.22 | ↑ +78% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $862.22 | ↑ +78% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $1,088.21 | ↑ +125% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,096.83 | ↑ +127% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $1,195.76 | ↑ +147% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $1,225.18 | ↑ +153% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $1,292.91 | ↑ +167% |
| First Health | Commercial | $1,361.40 | ↑ +181% |
| Cigna | HMO | $1,405.41 | ↑ +190% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $1,647.06 | ↑ +240% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $1,713.32 | ↑ +254% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $1,738.50 | ↑ +259% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $1,754.84 | ↑ +263% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $1,887.80 | ↑ +290% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $2,929.00 | ↑ +505% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $3,093.00 | ↑ +539% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $3,446.00 | ↑ +612% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $3,639.00 | ↑ +652% |
| Aetna | PPO | $4,370.00 | ↑ +803% |
| Aetna | HMO | $4,370.00 | ↑ +803% |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | $380.84 | $268.80 – $1,159.76 |
| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $480.80 | $595.29 – $1,190.58 |
| Community Medical Center | Toms River | $420.81 | $579.88 – $1,153.96 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | $305.51 | $595.29 – $1,184.63 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $472.63 | $278.72 – $1,190.58 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | $421.62 | $350.39 – $1,243.49 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $443.94 | $587.30 – $1,168.73 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $587.30 | $587.30 – $704.76 |