Ghs st - eval for alt comm at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
1 Robert Wood Johnson Pl, New Brunswick, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1346243375
$48.63
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.
$228.00
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.
$10.39 with Wellpoint vs $332.00 with United Healthcare — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $10.39 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $30.96 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $33.90 | ↓ -30% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $36.48 | ↓ -25% |
| Humana | Medicare | $45.54 | ↓ -6% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $45.54 | ↓ -6% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $45.54 | ↓ -6% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $45.54 | ↓ -6% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $45.54 | ↓ -6% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $45.54 | ↓ -6% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $46.45 | ↓ -4% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $63.42 | ↑ +30% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $79.77 | ↑ +64% |
| Qualcare Inc | WC | $86.64 | ↑ +78% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $86.64 | ↑ +78% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO | $86.64 | ↑ +78% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $90.62 | ↑ +86% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $95.63 | ↑ +97% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $109.34 | ↑ +125% |
| Cigna | PPO | $110.21 | ↑ +127% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $120.15 | ↑ +147% |
| First Health | Commercial | $136.80 | ↑ +181% |
| Cigna | HMO | $141.22 | ↑ +190% |
| Aetna | PPO | $150.48 | ↑ +209% |
| Aetna | HMO | $150.48 | ↑ +209% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $165.50 | ↑ +240% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $172.16 | ↑ +254% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $174.69 | ↑ +259% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $176.33 | ↑ +263% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $189.69 | ↑ +290% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $282.00 | ↑ +480% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $282.00 | ↑ +480% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $332.00 | ↑ +583% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $332.00 | ↑ +583% |
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Ghs st - eval for alt comm at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | $42.79 | $8.38 – $85.80 |
| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $48.31 | $44.04 – $88.08 |
| Childrens Specialized Hospital | Mountainside | $68.00 | $91.56 – $394.00 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $47.49 | $8.63 – $88.08 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | $47.37 | $10.85 – $91.98 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $49.88 | $43.44 – $86.45 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $43.44 | $43.44 – $465.00 |
| Hackensack University Medical Center | Hackensack | $46.22 | $18.25 – $487.00 |