Measure kidney pressure 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

$5,741.00

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.

$1,211.00

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.

$39.69 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.

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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 $39.69 ↓ -99%
United Healthcare Community Plan $164.45 ↓ -97%
Aetna Better Health $180.07 ↓ -97%
Fidelis Care NJ Family Care $193.76 ↓ -97%
Amerihealth Local Value $423.72 ↓ -93%
Amerihealth Regional Preferred $580.79 ↓ -90%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Omnia $638.19 ↓ -89%
First Health Commercial $726.60 ↓ -87%
Aetna Medicare $774.48 ↓ -87%
Humana Medicare $774.48 ↓ -87%
Fidelis Care Medicare Advantage $774.48 ↓ -87%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Medicare Advantage $774.48 ↓ -87%
Wellpoint Medicare Advantage $774.48 ↓ -87%
Clover Health Medicare Advantage $774.48 ↓ -87%
United Healthcare Medicare $789.97 ↓ -86%
Wellpoint NJ Family Care $792.68 ↓ -86%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey State Benefit Plan $879.06 ↓ -85%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey PIP $914.42 ↓ -84%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Managed $927.86 ↓ -84%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Non-Managed $936.58 ↓ -84%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Worker's Comp $1,007.55 ↓ -82%
Wellcare Ambetter Health Commercial $1,541.22 ↓ -73%
Emblem Health Commercial $1,626.41 ↓ -72%
Cigna HMO $2,750.00 ↓ -52%
Cigna PPO $2,896.00 ↓ -50%
United Healthcare Oxford Metro $2,987.00 ↓ -48%
United Healthcare Nexus $3,154.00 ↓ -45%
United Healthcare Oxford Commercial $3,514.00 ↓ -39%
United Healthcare Commercial $3,710.00 ↓ -35%
Aetna PPO $4,370.00 ↓ -24%
Aetna HMO $4,370.00 ↓ -24%
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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