Low cost skin substitute app at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital

1 Robert Wood Johnson Pl, New Brunswick, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1346243375

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 4, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$1,398.18

Cash price

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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.

$6,555.00

Gross charge

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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.

$28.27 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey vs $5,453.76 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey NJ Health $28.27 ↓ -98%
Humana Medicare $710.27 ↓ -49%
Wellpoint Medicare Advantage $710.27 ↓ -49%
Aetna Medicare $710.27 ↓ -49%
Clover Health Medicare Advantage $710.27 ↓ -49%
Fidelis Care Medicare Advantage $710.27 ↓ -49%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Medicare Advantage $710.27 ↓ -49%
United Healthcare Medicare $724.48 ↓ -48%
United Healthcare Community Plan $890.16 ↓ -36%
Aetna Better Health $974.72 ↓ -30%
Fidelis Care NJ Family Care $1,048.80 ↓ -25%
Wellcare Ambetter Health Commercial $1,413.44 ↑ +1%
Emblem Health Commercial $1,491.57 ↑ +7%
Amerihealth Local Value $2,293.59 ↑ +64%
Qualcare Inc WC $2,490.90 ↑ +78%
Qualcare Inc PPO $2,490.90 ↑ +78%
Qualcare Inc HMO/POS $2,490.90 ↑ +78%
Cigna HMO $2,750.00 ↑ +97%
Cigna PPO $2,896.00 ↑ +107%
United Healthcare Oxford Metro $2,929.00 ↑ +109%
United Healthcare Nexus $3,093.00 ↑ +121%
Amerihealth Regional Preferred $3,143.77 ↑ +125%
United Healthcare Oxford Commercial $3,446.00 ↑ +146%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Omnia $3,454.48 ↑ +147%
United Healthcare Commercial $3,639.00 ↑ +160%
First Health Commercial $3,933.00 ↑ +181%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey State Benefit Plan $4,758.27 ↑ +240%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey PIP $4,949.68 ↑ +254%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Managed $5,022.44 ↑ +259%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Non-Managed $5,069.63 ↑ +263%
Aetna PPO $5,244.00 ↑ +275%
Aetna HMO $5,244.00 ↑ +275%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Worker's Comp $5,453.76 ↑ +290%

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Low cost skin substitute app at other New-jersey hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center Livingston $1,389.00 $31.08 – $1,373.52
Community Medical Center Toms River $853.24 $31.82 – $1,331.27
Clara Maass Medical Center Belleville $1,295.23 $30.70 – $1,366.65
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Newark $1,365.40 $56.35 – $1,373.52
Jersey City Medical Center Jersey City $854.88 $33.70 – $1,434.55
Monmouth Medical Center Long Branch $900.14 $61.40 – $1,348.30
Bayshore Medical Center Holmdel $677.54 $677.54 – $813.05
Hackensack University Medical Center Hackensack $720.88 $576.70 – $756.93

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