Place device/marker, non pro at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
1 Robert Wood Johnson Pl, New Brunswick, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1346243375
$705.38
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.
$3,307.00
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.
$448.14 with United Healthcare 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $448.14 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $490.71 | ↓ -30% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $528.00 | ↓ -25% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $1,154.67 | ↑ +64% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $1,254.00 | ↑ +78% |
| Qualcare Inc | WC | $1,254.00 | ↑ +78% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO | $1,254.00 | ↑ +78% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $1,582.68 | ↑ +124% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $1,587.62 | ↑ +125% |
| Humana | Medicare | $1,587.62 | ↑ +125% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,587.62 | ↑ +125% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $1,587.62 | ↑ +125% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $1,587.62 | ↑ +125% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $1,587.62 | ↑ +125% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,619.37 | ↑ +130% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $1,739.10 | ↑ +147% |
| First Health | Commercial | $1,980.00 | ↑ +181% |
| Cigna | HMO | $2,367.00 | ↑ +236% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $2,395.47 | ↑ +240% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $2,491.83 | ↑ +253% |
| Cigna | PPO | $2,493.00 | ↑ +253% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $2,528.46 | ↑ +258% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $2,552.22 | ↑ +262% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $2,568.00 | ↑ +264% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $2,568.00 | ↑ +264% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $2,745.60 | ↑ +289% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $3,021.00 | ↑ +328% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $3,021.00 | ↑ +328% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $3,159.36 | ↑ +348% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $3,334.00 | ↑ +373% |
| Aetna | HMO | $4,370.00 | ↑ +520% |
| Aetna | PPO | $4,370.00 | ↑ +520% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | $619.41 | $409.21 – $2,990.68 |
| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $499.47 | $1,535.08 – $3,070.16 |
| Community Medical Center | Toms River | $1,274.47 | $1,495.34 – $2,975.73 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | $468.83 | $1,440.00 – $3,054.81 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $490.99 | $1,535.08 – $3,070.16 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | $489.81 | $1,566.00 – $3,206.59 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $515.74 | $1,514.47 – $3,013.80 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $1,514.47 | $1,514.47 – $1,817.37 |