Methylene blue (antidote) 5 mg/ml intravenous solution at Raritan Bay Medical Center
530 New Brunswick Avenue, Perth Amboy, NJ · Hackensack Meridian Health · · NPI 1790297455
$7.86
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.
$145.69
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.
$7.86 with HORIZON BCBS BRAVEN vs $43.04 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 |
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| HORIZON BCBS BRAVEN | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $7.86 | ↑ +0% |
| VACCN | ALL PRODUCTS | $7.86 | ↑ +0% |
| CLOVER | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $8.02 | ↑ +2% |
| UNITED COMMUNITY/AMERICHOICE | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $8.25 | ↑ +5% |
| AMERIGROUP | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $8.41 | ↑ +7% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $8.57 | ↑ +9% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | DSNP | $9.43 | ↑ +20% |
| OXFORD | ALL PRODUCTS | $16.66 | ↑ +112% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | HMO | $16.66 | ↑ +112% |
| QUALCARE | HMO | $16.71 | ↑ +113% |
| QUALCARE | PPO | $16.71 | ↑ +113% |
| QUALCARE | WORKERS COMP | $16.71 | ↑ +113% |
| WELLCARE | MANAGED MEDICAID | $20.05 | ↑ +155% |
| WELLCARE | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $20.05 | ↑ +155% |
| AMERIHEALTH | LOCAL HMO | $21.11 | ↑ +169% |
| AETNA | MANAGED MEDICAID | $21.83 | ↑ +178% |
| CIGNA | PPO | $22.05 | ↑ +181% |
| CIGNA | HMO | $22.05 | ↑ +181% |
| SEOUL MEDICAL GROUP | ALL PRODUCTS | $22.28 | ↑ +183% |
| AMERIGROUP | MANAGED MEDICAID | $22.28 | ↑ +183% |
| AMERIHEALTH | REGIONAL HMO | $23.60 | ↑ +200% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | MANAGED MEDICAID | $26.24 | ↑ +234% |
| BERGEN RISK | ALL PRODUCTS | $26.73 | ↑ +240% |
| ACTIVECARE FIRST MCO | ALL PRODUCTS | $33.41 | ↑ +325% |
| HORIZON | OMNIA | $34.04 | ↑ +333% |
| HORIZON | PIP | $34.48 | ↑ +339% |
| HORIZON | WORKERS COMP | $34.72 | ↑ +342% |
| AETNA | ASA | $34.88 | ↑ +344% |
| CIGNA | BH | $35.64 | ↑ +353% |
| HORIZON | INDEMNITY | $37.44 | ↑ +376% |
| MULTIPLAN - PHCS | ALL PRODUCTS | $37.87 | ↑ +382% |
| KARNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $39.79 | ↑ +406% |
| BRIGHTON HEALTH PLAN | ALL PRODUCTS | $40.10 | ↑ +410% |
| HORIZON | SHP | $41.57 | ↑ +429% |
| HORIZON | HMO | $41.97 | ↑ +434% |
| HORIZON | PPO | $43.04 | ↑ +448% |
| AETNA | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| AETNA | HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| HORIZON | MANAGED MEDICAID | not published by hospital | — |
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Methylene blue (antidote) 5 mg/ml intravenous solution at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | not published | $1.19 – $19.46 |
| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | not published | $1.67 – $19.98 |
| Community Medical Center | Toms River | not published | $1.67 – $19.36 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | not published | $1.67 – $19.88 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | not published | $1.67 – $19.98 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | not published | $1.67 – $20.86 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | not published | $1.67 – $19.60 |
| Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton | Hamilton Township | not published | $4.67 – $19.36 |