Intracard echo interv w/s&i at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
1 Robert Wood Johnson Pl, New Brunswick, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1346243375
$1,113.42
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.
$5,220.00
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.
$265.76 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey 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 |
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| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $265.76 | ↓ -76% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $395.00 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $395.00 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $465.00 | ↓ -58% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $465.00 | ↓ -58% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $708.87 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $776.21 | ↓ -30% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $835.20 | ↓ -25% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $939.60 | ↓ -16% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $1,983.60 | ↑ +78% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO | $1,983.60 | ↑ +78% |
| Qualcare Inc | WC | $1,983.60 | ↑ +78% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $2,750.94 | ↑ +147% |
| First Health | Commercial | $3,132.00 | ↑ +181% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $3,789.19 | ↑ +240% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $3,941.62 | ↑ +254% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $3,999.56 | ↑ +259% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $4,037.14 | ↑ +263% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $4,343.04 | ↑ +290% |
| Aetna | HMO | $4,370.00 | ↑ +292% |
| Aetna | PPO | $4,370.00 | ↑ +292% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | not published by hospital | — |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | not published by hospital | — |
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Intracard echo interv w/s&i at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $1,106.11 | $292.16 – $395.00 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $1,087.32 | $114.45 – $529.76 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | $990.79 | $143.88 – $395.00 |
| Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | not published | $111.18 – $4,260.62 |
| Community Medical Center | Toms River | not published | $299.20 – $395.00 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | not published | $395.00 – $577.28 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | not published | not published |
| Hackensack University Medical Center | Hackensack | not published | $626.84 – $2,033.00 |