Arthrocentesis/aspiration/inj major joint/bursa without Ultrasound guidance (both sides) at Community Medical Center
99 NJ-37, Toms River, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1013010917
$3,786.00
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.
$1,519.00
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.
$66.61 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey vs $4,174.00 with Aetna — 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 Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $66.61 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $188.50 | ↓ -95% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $192.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $206.28 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $322.61 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | Medicare | $322.61 | ↓ -91% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Medicare Advantage | $322.61 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $322.61 | ↓ -91% |
| Fidelis Care | Medicare Advantage | $322.61 | ↓ -91% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Advantage | $322.61 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $329.06 | ↓ -91% |
| Emblem Health | Commercial | $564.57 | ↓ -85% |
| Wellcare | Ambetter Health Commercial | $641.99 | ↓ -83% |
| First Health | Commercial | $911.40 | ↓ -76% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $986.59 | ↓ -74% |
| Amerihealth | Local Value | $1,112.81 | ↓ -71% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $1,139.25 | ↓ -70% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO/WC | $1,148.36 | ↓ -70% |
| Amerihealth | Regional Preferred | $1,188.46 | ↓ -69% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $1,196.06 | ↓ -68% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $1,215.65 | ↓ -68% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $1,291.15 | ↓ -66% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $1,389.73 | ↓ -63% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $2,033.00 | ↓ -46% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Metro | $2,445.00 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | HMO | $2,583.00 | ↓ -32% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $2,699.00 | ↓ -29% |
| Cigna | PPO | $2,721.00 | ↓ -28% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $2,751.00 | ↓ -27% |
| United Healthcare | Oxford Commercial | $2,877.00 | ↓ -24% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $3,236.00 | ↓ -15% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $3,266.00 | ↓ -14% |
| Aetna | PPO | $4,174.00 | ↑ +10% |
| Aetna | HMO | $4,174.00 | ↑ +10% |
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| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | $326.73 | $326.73 – $392.08 |
| Hackensack University Medical Center | Hackensack | $347.63 | $96.10 – $365.02 |