Unlisted procedure spine at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
201 Lyons Ave, Newark, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1215027966
$4,881.00
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.
$12,788.00
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.
$269.13 with Wellpoint vs $11,935.04 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 | Medicare Advantage | $269.13 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | Medicare | $269.13 | ↓ -94% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $269.13 | ↓ -94% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $269.13 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $269.13 | ↓ -94% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $269.13 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $274.51 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $535.57 | ↓ -89% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $538.26 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $2,626.00 | ↓ -46% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $2,788.00 | ↓ -43% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $2,904.15 | ↓ -41% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $3,089.00 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $3,181.65 | ↓ -35% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $3,266.00 | ↓ -33% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $3,280.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $3,319.76 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | HMO | $4,049.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Aetna | PPO | $4,049.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $4,148.00 | ↓ -15% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $4,735.39 | ↓ -3% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $5,998.85 | ↑ +23% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $6,000.12 | ↑ +23% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $6,665.10 | ↑ +37% |
| Cigna | HMO | $7,624.20 | ↑ +56% |
| First Health | Commercial | $7,672.80 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna | PPO | $8,029.58 | ↑ +65% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $8,300.69 | ↑ +70% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $8,839.06 | ↑ +81% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $8,922.18 | ↑ +83% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $10,869.80 | ↑ +123% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO/WC | $11,125.56 | ↑ +128% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $11,935.04 | ↑ +145% |
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Unlisted procedure spine at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | $5,855.00 | $262.16 – $524.32 |
| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $6,839.00 | $269.13 – $538.26 |
| Community Medical Center | Toms River | $3,786.00 | $262.16 – $521.70 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | $3,986.00 | $269.13 – $535.57 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | $5,339.00 | $282.50 – $562.18 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $5,419.00 | $265.51 – $528.36 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $265.51 | $265.51 – $318.62 |
| Hackensack University Medical Center | Hackensack | $282.50 | $226.00 – $296.62 |