Low cost skin substitute app at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
1 Robert Wood Johnson Pl, New Brunswick, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1346243375
$1,016.16
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.
$4,764.00
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.
$72.18 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey 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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| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $72.18 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $646.95 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $708.40 | ↓ -30% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $710.27 | ↓ -30% |
| Humana | Medicare | $710.27 | ↓ -30% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $710.27 | ↓ -30% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $710.27 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $710.27 | ↓ -30% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $710.27 | ↓ -30% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $724.48 | ↓ -29% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $762.24 | ↓ -25% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $1,413.44 | ↑ +39% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $1,491.57 | ↑ +47% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $1,666.92 | ↑ +64% |
| Qualcare Inc | WC | $1,810.32 | ↑ +78% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO | $1,810.32 | ↑ +78% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $1,810.32 | ↑ +78% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $2,284.81 | ↑ +125% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $2,510.62 | ↑ +147% |
| Cigna | HMO | $2,750.00 | ↑ +171% |
| First Health | Commercial | $2,858.40 | ↑ +181% |
| Cigna | PPO | $2,896.00 | ↑ +185% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $2,929.00 | ↑ +188% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $3,093.00 | ↑ +204% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $3,446.00 | ↑ +239% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $3,458.18 | ↑ +240% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $3,597.29 | ↑ +254% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $3,639.00 | ↑ +258% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $3,650.17 | ↑ +259% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $3,684.47 | ↑ +263% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $3,963.64 | ↑ +290% |
| Aetna | PPO | $5,244.00 | ↑ +416% |
| Aetna | HMO | $5,244.00 | ↑ +416% |
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Low cost skin substitute app at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $1,009.49 | $79.35 – $1,373.52 |
| Community Medical Center | Toms River | $727.97 | $81.26 – $1,331.27 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | $585.36 | $78.39 – $1,366.65 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $992.34 | $143.88 – $1,373.52 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | $729.37 | $86.04 – $1,434.55 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $767.98 | $156.78 – $1,348.30 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $677.54 | $677.54 – $813.05 |
| Hackensack University Medical Center | Hackensack | $720.88 | $576.70 – $756.93 |