Obtaining screen pap smear at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
201 Lyons Ave, Newark, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1215027966
$33.95
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.
$163.00
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.
$11.73 with United Healthcare vs $152.12 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 | Oxford Metro | $11.73 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $11.73 | ↓ -65% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $11.93 | ↓ -65% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $11.93 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $12.64 | ↓ -63% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $12.64 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | PPO | $22.88 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | HMO | $22.88 | ↓ -33% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $27.48 | ↓ -19% |
| Humana | Medicare | $27.48 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $27.48 | ↓ -19% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $27.48 | ↓ -19% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $27.48 | ↓ -19% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $27.48 | ↓ -19% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $28.03 | ↓ -17% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $33.43 | ↓ -2% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $40.55 | ↑ +19% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $42.31 | ↑ +25% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $54.69 | ↑ +61% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $54.96 | ↑ +62% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $84.95 | ↑ +150% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $93.98 | ↑ +177% |
| First Health | Commercial | $97.80 | ↑ +188% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $105.80 | ↑ +212% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $112.66 | ↑ +232% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $113.72 | ↑ +235% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $114.38 | ↑ +237% |
| Cigna | HMO | $119.43 | ↑ +252% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $125.18 | ↑ +269% |
| Cigna | PPO | $125.78 | ↑ +270% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO/WC | $133.49 | ↑ +293% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $138.55 | ↑ +308% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $152.12 | ↑ +348% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Obtaining screen pap smear at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | $37.54 | $11.73 – $53.52 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | $48.41 | $11.73 – $57.39 |
| JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute (JRI) | Edison | $27.13 | $24.49 – $53.78 |
| Jersey Shore University Medical Center | Neptune City | $27.11 | $27.11 – $55.14 |
| Palisades Medical Center | North Bergen | $28.84 | $28.84 – $104.07 |
| Raritan Bay Medical Center | Perth Amboy | $27.13 | $27.13 – $95.00 |
| Riverview Medical Center | Red Bank | $27.11 | $27.11 – $50.64 |
| Southern Ocean Medical Center | Manahawkin | $26.76 | $26.76 – $50.64 |