Sputum specimen collection at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset
110 Rehill Ave, Somerville, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1003236878
$88.21
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.
$522.00
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.
$8.64 with Wellpoint vs $477.52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $8.64 | ↓ -90% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $9.67 | ↓ -89% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $9.67 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $16.75 | ↓ -81% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $17.23 | ↓ -80% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $22.21 | ↓ -75% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $22.21 | ↓ -75% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $22.21 | ↓ -75% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $22.21 | ↓ -75% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $25.70 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | PPO | $25.87 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | HMO | $25.87 | ↓ -71% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $73.91 | ↓ -16% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $73.91 | ↓ -16% |
| Cigna | PPO | $77.27 | ↓ -12% |
| Cigna | HMO | $77.27 | ↓ -12% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $77.27 | ↓ -12% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $78.93 | ↓ -11% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $78.93 | ↓ -11% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $82.58 | ↓ -6% |
| Humana | Medicare | $187.28 | ↑ +112% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $187.28 | ↑ +112% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $187.28 | ↑ +112% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $187.28 | ↑ +112% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $187.28 | ↑ +112% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $187.28 | ↑ +112% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $191.03 | ↑ +117% |
| First Health | Commercial | $313.20 | ↑ +255% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $327.74 | ↑ +272% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $372.69 | ↑ +323% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/PPO/WC | $396.72 | ↑ +350% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $477.52 | ↑ +441% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $477.52 | ↑ +441% |
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Sputum specimen collection at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $74.80 | $9.67 – $384.50 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | $103.82 | $9.65 – $382.58 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $73.52 | $9.67 – $384.50 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $189.67 | $189.67 – $770.00 |
| Hackensack University Medical Center | Hackensack | $201.80 | $23.30 – $794.00 |
| Ocean University Medical Center | Brick | $187.28 | $8.80 – $317.00 |
| JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute (JRI) | Edison | $189.84 | $8.80 – $317.00 |
| Jersey Shore University Medical Center | Neptune City | $189.67 | $35.95 – $604.00 |