Tilt table study at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
1 Robert Wood Johnson Pl, New Brunswick, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1346243375
$792.19
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.
$3,714.00
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.
$152.06 with Wellpoint vs $3,090.04 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.
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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| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $152.06 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $395.00 | ↓ -50% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $395.00 | ↓ -50% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $465.00 | ↓ -41% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $465.00 | ↓ -41% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $504.36 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $552.27 | ↓ -30% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $594.24 | ↓ -25% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $615.67 | ↓ -22% |
| Humana | Medicare | $615.67 | ↓ -22% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $615.67 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $615.67 | ↓ -22% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $615.67 | ↓ -22% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $615.67 | ↓ -22% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $627.98 | ↓ -21% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $866.74 | ↑ +9% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $1,225.18 | ↑ +55% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $1,292.91 | ↑ +63% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $1,299.52 | ↑ +64% |
| Qualcare Inc | WC | $1,411.32 | ↑ +78% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $1,411.32 | ↑ +78% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO | $1,411.32 | ↑ +78% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $1,781.23 | ↑ +125% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,795.34 | ↑ +127% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $1,957.27 | ↑ +147% |
| First Health | Commercial | $2,228.40 | ↑ +181% |
| Cigna | HMO | $2,300.45 | ↑ +190% |
| Aetna | PPO | $2,451.24 | ↑ +209% |
| Aetna | HMO | $2,451.24 | ↑ +209% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $2,695.99 | ↑ +240% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $2,804.44 | ↑ +254% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $2,845.66 | ↑ +259% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $2,872.40 | ↑ +263% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $3,090.04 | ↑ +290% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Tilt table study at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | $801.29 | $83.30 – $1,159.76 |
| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $786.99 | $395.00 – $1,190.58 |
| Community Medical Center | Toms River | $885.39 | $395.00 – $1,153.96 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | $672.48 | $345.00 – $1,184.63 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $773.62 | $85.75 – $1,190.58 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | $887.09 | $107.80 – $1,243.49 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $934.05 | $395.00 – $1,168.73 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $587.30 | $587.30 – $704.76 |