Echo guide for transfusion at Community Medical Center
99 NJ-37, Toms River, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1013010917
$117.59
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.
$567.00
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.
$70.36 with United Healthcare vs $518.74 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 |
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| United Healthcare | Community Plan | $70.36 | ↓ -40% |
| Fidelis Care | NJ Family Care | $71.66 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Better Health | $76.99 | ↓ -35% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | NJ Health | $96.78 | ↓ -18% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Omnia | $132.27 | ↑ +12% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Managed | $132.27 | ↑ +12% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Non-Managed | $132.27 | ↑ +12% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | State Benefit Plan | $132.27 | ↑ +12% |
| Aetna | PPO | $311.85 | ↑ +165% |
| Aetna | HMO | $311.85 | ↑ +165% |
| Wellpoint | NJ Family Care | $323.19 | ↑ +175% |
| First Health | Commercial | $340.20 | ↑ +189% |
| Qualcare Inc | HMO/POS | $378.18 | ↑ +222% |
| Qualcare Inc | PPO/WC | $403.13 | ↑ +243% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Worker's Comp | $481.95 | ↑ +310% |
| Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | PIP | $518.74 | ↑ +341% |
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Echo guide for transfusion at other New-jersey hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth | $106.42 | $58.14 – $153.43 |
| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Livingston | $120.14 | $96.78 – $166.00 |
| Clara Maass Medical Center | Belleville | $208.84 | $96.78 – $96.78 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Newark | $118.10 | $59.85 – $166.00 |
| Jersey City Medical Center | Jersey City | $117.82 | $75.24 – $144.60 |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | $124.05 | $96.78 – $166.00 |
| Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset | Somerville | $177.45 | $61.56 – $960.00 |
| Bayshore Medical Center | Holmdel | not published | $114.59 – $114.59 |