Insert abdomen-venous drain at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
1 Robert Wood Johnson Pl, New Brunswick, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1346243375
$5,741.00
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.
$2,021.00
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.
$274.45 with United Healthcare vs $5,244.00 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 |
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| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $274.45 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $300.52 | ↓ -95% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $323.36 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $468.86 | ↓ -92% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $619.10 | ↓ -89% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $707.14 | ↓ -88% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $969.27 | ↓ -83% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $1,065.06 | ↓ -81% |
| First Health | Commercial | $1,212.60 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | HMO | $1,213.61 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,278.28 | ↓ -78% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $1,467.04 | ↓ -74% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $1,526.05 | ↓ -73% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $1,548.49 | ↓ -73% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $1,563.04 | ↓ -73% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $1,681.47 | ↓ -71% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $4,094.00 | ↓ -29% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $4,322.00 | ↓ -25% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $4,816.00 | ↓ -16% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $5,085.00 | ↓ -11% |
| Aetna | PPO | $5,244.00 | ↓ -9% |
| Aetna | HMO | $5,244.00 | ↓ -9% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | not published by hospital | — |
| Qualcare Inc | WC | not published by hospital | — |
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