Platelets pheresis pathogen-reduced each unit at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Rahway

865 Stone St, Rahway, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1861486870

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 4, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$354.75

Cash price

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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.

$2,750.00

Gross charge

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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.

$275.00 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey vs $2,587.00 with United Healthcare — same scan, same building. Share

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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.

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Payer
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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.

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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey NJ Health $275.00 ↓ -22%
Aetna Better Health $333.57 ↓ -6%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Medicare Advantage $641.83 ↑ +81%
Fidelis Care Medicare Advantage $641.83 ↑ +81%
Clover Health Medicare Advantage $641.83 ↑ +81%
Humana Medicare $641.83 ↑ +81%
Aetna Medicare $641.83 ↑ +81%
Wellpoint Medicare Advantage $641.83 ↑ +81%
United Healthcare Medicare $654.67 ↑ +85%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Omnia $1,050.50 ↑ +196%
Emblem Health Commercial $1,123.20 ↑ +217%
Wellcare Ambetter Health Commercial $1,277.24 ↑ +260%
Amerihealth Local Value $1,301.85 ↑ +267%
Cigna Local Plus $1,340.62 ↑ +278%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey State Benefit Plan $1,366.20 ↑ +285%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Worker's Comp $1,379.12 ↑ +289%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey PIP $1,405.80 ↑ +296%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Managed $1,500.67 ↑ +323%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Non-Managed $1,514.42 ↑ +327%
Amerihealth Regional Preferred $1,541.65 ↑ +335%
First Health Commercial $1,650.00 ↑ +365%
Cigna HMO $1,703.35 ↑ +380%
Cigna PPO $1,794.10 ↑ +406%
Qualcare Inc HMO/POS/PPO/WC $1,848.00 ↑ +421%
Aetna PPO $1,964.00 ↑ +454%
Aetna HMO $1,964.00 ↑ +454%
United Healthcare Oxford Metro $2,199.00 ↑ +520%
United Healthcare Nexus $2,199.00 ↑ +520%
United Healthcare Oxford Commercial $2,587.00 ↑ +629%
United Healthcare Commercial $2,587.00 ↑ +629%

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Platelets pheresis pathogen-reduced each unit at other New-jersey hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Trinitas Regional Medical Center Elizabeth $368.64 $641.83 – $1,283.66
Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center Livingston $416.17 $658.88 – $1,317.76
Community Medical Center Toms River $407.33 $641.83 – $1,277.24
Clara Maass Medical Center Belleville $390.63 $658.88 – $1,311.17
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Newark $409.10 $658.88 – $1,317.76
Jersey City Medical Center Jersey City $408.11 $691.62 – $1,376.32
Monmouth Medical Center Long Branch $429.72 $650.04 – $2,199.00
JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute (JRI) Edison $650.60 $311.00 – $650.60

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