Muscle test hemidiaphragm at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
1 Robert Wood Johnson Pl, New Brunswick, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1346243375
$72.30
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.
$339.00
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.
$46.03 with United Healthcare vs $1,187.00 with United Healthcare — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $46.03 | ↓ -36% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $50.24 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $50.40 | ↓ -30% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $54.24 | ↓ -25% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $75.41 | ↑ +4% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $118.61 | ↑ +64% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $128.82 | ↑ +78% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO | $128.82 | ↑ +78% |
| Qualcare Inc | WC | $128.82 | ↑ +78% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $162.58 | ↑ +125% |
| Cigna | PPO | $163.87 | ↑ +127% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $178.65 | ↑ +147% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $181.54 | ↑ +151% |
| Humana | Medicare | $181.54 | ↑ +151% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $181.54 | ↑ +151% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $181.54 | ↑ +151% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $181.54 | ↑ +151% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $181.54 | ↑ +151% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $185.17 | ↑ +156% |
| First Health | Commercial | $203.40 | ↑ +181% |
| Cigna | HMO | $209.97 | ↑ +190% |
| Aetna | HMO | $223.74 | ↑ +209% |
| Aetna | PPO | $223.74 | ↑ +209% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $246.08 | ↑ +240% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $255.97 | ↑ +254% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $259.74 | ↑ +259% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $262.18 | ↑ +263% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $282.04 | ↑ +290% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $361.26 | ↑ +400% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $381.23 | ↑ +427% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $1,009.00 | ↑ +1296% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $1,009.00 | ↑ +1296% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $1,187.00 | ↑ +1542% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,187.00 | ↑ +1542% |
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