Ultrasound guide tissue ablation at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
1 Robert Wood Johnson Pl, New Brunswick, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1346243375
$133.52
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.
$626.00
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.
$79.52 with Wellpoint vs $520.83 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 | $79.52 | ↓ -40% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $85.01 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $93.08 | ↓ -30% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $100.16 | ↓ -25% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $237.80 | ↑ +78% |
| Qualcare Inc | WC | $237.88 | ↑ +78% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO | $237.88 | ↑ +78% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $237.88 | ↑ +78% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $329.90 | ↑ +147% |
| First Health | Commercial | $375.60 | ↑ +181% |
| Aetna | HMO | $413.16 | ↑ +209% |
| Aetna | PPO | $413.16 | ↑ +209% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $454.41 | ↑ +240% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $472.69 | ↑ +254% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $479.64 | ↑ +259% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $484.14 | ↑ +263% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $520.83 | ↑ +290% |
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Ultrasound guide tissue ablation at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | $170.80 | $94.76 – $377.00 |
| Community Medical Center | Toms River | $188.73 | $237.80 – $237.80 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $130.39 | $97.55 – $237.80 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $199.10 | $237.80 – $237.80 |
| Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus | Lakewood | $216.30 | $237.80 – $237.80 |
| Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset | Somerville | $81.28 | $100.33 – $960.00 |
| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | not published | $237.80 – $237.80 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | not published | $237.80 – $237.80 |