Explore/irrigate tear ducts at Palisades Medical Center
7600 River Rd., North Bergen, NJ · Hackensack Meridian Health · · NPI 1730692344
$352.04
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.
$738.00
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.
$0.01 with CIGNA vs $16,802.00 with HORIZON — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CIGNA | HMO | $0.01 | ↓ -100% |
| CIGNA | PPO | $0.01 | ↓ -100% |
| HORIZON | MANAGED MEDICAID | $22.06 | ↓ -94% |
| AETNA | MANAGED MEDICAID | $126.20 | ↓ -64% |
| SEOUL MEDICAL GROUP | ALL PRODUCTS | $128.41 | ↓ -64% |
| CLOVER | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $132.84 | ↓ -62% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $150.55 | ↓ -57% |
| KARNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $254.55 | ↓ -28% |
| HORIZON | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $352.04 | ↑ +0% |
| WELLCARE | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $352.04 | ↑ +0% |
| WELLCARE | MANAGED MEDICAID | $352.04 | ↑ +0% |
| VACCN | ALL PRODUCTS | $352.04 | ↑ +0% |
| AMERIGROUP | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $352.04 | ↑ +0% |
| HORIZON BCBS BRAVEN | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $352.04 | ↑ +0% |
| UNITED COMMUNITY/AMERICHOICE | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $369.64 | ↑ +5% |
| HORIZON | OMNIA | $504.94 | ↑ +43% |
| HORIZON | PIP | $553.50 | ↑ +57% |
| BERGEN RISK | ALL PRODUCTS | $553.50 | ↑ +57% |
| ACTIVECARE FIRST MCO | ALL PRODUCTS | $590.40 | ↑ +68% |
| HORIZON | SHP | $605.82 | ↑ +72% |
| AMERIHEALTH | LOCAL HMO | $617.93 | ↑ +76% |
| HORIZON | HMO | $624.05 | ↑ +77% |
| MULTIPLAN - PHCS | ALL PRODUCTS | $627.30 | ↑ +78% |
| HORIZON | INDEMNITY | $628.92 | ↑ +79% |
| HORIZON | PPO | $639.85 | ↑ +82% |
| QUALCARE | PPO | $683.39 | ↑ +94% |
| QUALCARE | WORKERS COMP | $683.39 | ↑ +94% |
| QUALCARE | HMO | $683.39 | ↑ +94% |
| AMERIHEALTH | REGIONAL HMO | $689.66 | ↑ +96% |
| OXFORD | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,775.00 | ↑ +688% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | HMO | $3,339.00 | ↑ +848% |
| AETNA | PPO | $7,770.00 | ↑ +2107% |
| AETNA | HMO | $7,770.00 | ↑ +2107% |
| BRIGHTON HEALTH PLAN | ALL PRODUCTS | $9,933.00 | ↑ +2722% |
| HORIZON | WORKERS COMP | $16,802.00 | ↑ +4673% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | MANAGED MEDICAID | not published by hospital | — |
| AMERIGROUP | MANAGED MEDICAID | not published by hospital | — |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $330.87 | $330.87 – $397.05 |
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