Echo transesophageal at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
201 Lyons Ave, Newark, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1215027966
$627.60
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.
$3,013.00
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.
$128.10 with United Healthcare vs $2,556.30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $128.10 | ↓ -80% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $367.22 | ↓ -41% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $615.15 | ↓ -2% |
| Humana | Medicare | $615.15 | ↓ -2% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $615.15 | ↓ -2% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $615.15 | ↓ -2% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $615.15 | ↓ -2% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $615.15 | ↓ -2% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $627.45 | ↓ -0% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $681.46 | ↑ +9% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $711.04 | ↑ +13% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $719.00 | ↑ +15% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $719.00 | ↑ +15% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $846.00 | ↑ +35% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $846.00 | ↑ +35% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $1,224.15 | ↑ +95% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $1,230.30 | ↑ +96% |
| Aetna | HMO | $1,369.50 | ↑ +118% |
| Aetna | PPO | $1,369.50 | ↑ +118% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $1,427.56 | ↑ +127% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $1,561.23 | ↑ +149% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $1,579.30 | ↑ +152% |
| First Health | Commercial | $1,643.40 | ↑ +162% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $1,777.88 | ↑ +183% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $1,893.19 | ↑ +202% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $1,893.19 | ↑ +202% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $1,893.19 | ↑ +202% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $1,911.00 | ↑ +204% |
| Cigna | HMO | $2,006.86 | ↑ +220% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $2,103.55 | ↑ +235% |
| Cigna | PPO | $2,113.68 | ↑ +237% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO/WC | $2,243.24 | ↑ +257% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $2,328.15 | ↑ +271% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $2,556.30 | ↑ +307% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Echo transesophageal at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | $767.75 | $200.08 – $1,224.15 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $817.65 | $400.16 – $1,207.71 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $606.89 | $282.20 – $661.51 |
| Hackensack University Medical Center | Hackensack | $645.71 | $516.57 – $817.01 |
| Ocean University Medical Center | Brick | $599.23 | $282.20 – $1,029.80 |
| JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute (JRI) | Edison | $607.42 | $244.00 – $1,029.80 |
| Jersey Shore University Medical Center | Neptune City | $606.89 | $282.20 – $800.11 |
| Palisades Medical Center | North Bergen | $645.71 | $240.34 – $817.01 |