Insert swan-ganz cath at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
1 Robert Wood Johnson Pl, New Brunswick, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1346243375
$1,019.36
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.
$4,779.00
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.
$200.98 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey vs $22,386.00 with Qualcare Inc — 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 | $200.98 | ↓ -80% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $452.47 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $648.98 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $710.63 | ↓ -30% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $764.64 | ↓ -25% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $1,802.49 | ↑ +77% |
| Humana | Medicare | $1,802.49 | ↑ +77% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,802.49 | ↑ +77% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $1,802.49 | ↑ +77% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $1,802.49 | ↑ +77% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $1,802.49 | ↑ +77% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,838.54 | ↑ +80% |
| Cigna | PPO | $2,310.16 | ↑ +127% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $2,518.53 | ↑ +147% |
| First Health | Commercial | $2,867.40 | ↑ +181% |
| Cigna | HMO | $2,960.11 | ↑ +190% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $2,987.00 | ↑ +193% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $3,154.00 | ↑ +209% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $3,469.07 | ↑ +240% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $3,514.00 | ↑ +245% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $3,586.96 | ↑ +252% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $3,608.62 | ↑ +254% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $3,661.66 | ↑ +259% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $3,696.07 | ↑ +263% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $3,710.00 | ↑ +264% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $3,785.23 | ↑ +271% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $3,976.12 | ↑ +290% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $9,098.00 | ↑ +793% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO | $10,939.00 | ↑ +973% |
| Aetna | PPO | $17,479.00 | ↑ +1615% |
| Aetna | HMO | $17,479.00 | ↑ +1615% |
| Qualcare Inc | WC | $22,386.00 | ↑ +2096% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | not published by hospital | — |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | not published by hospital | — |
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| Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | $897.01 | $42.96 – $3,395.44 |
| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $1,012.67 | $220.95 – $3,485.68 |
| Community Medical Center | Toms River | $991.16 | $226.27 – $3,378.46 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | $572.83 | $218.28 – $3,468.25 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $995.46 | $44.23 – $3,485.68 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | $993.07 | $55.60 – $3,640.55 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $1,719.44 | $1,719.44 – $2,063.33 |
| Hackensack University Medical Center | Hackensack | $1,829.42 | $143.65 – $1,920.90 |