Low cost skin substitute app at Community Medical Center

99 NJ-37, Toms River, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health · · NPI 1013010917

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

$853.24

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.

$4,114.00

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.

$31.82 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey vs $5,009.00 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.

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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
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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 $31.82 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Community Plan $510.54 ↓ -40%
Fidelis Care NJ Family Care $520.00 ↓ -39%
Aetna Better Health $558.68 ↓ -35%
Fidelis Care Medicare Advantage $668.98 ↓ -22%
Aetna Medicare $668.98 ↓ -22%
Humana Medicare $668.98 ↓ -22%
Wellpoint Medicare Advantage $668.98 ↓ -22%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Medicare Advantage $668.98 ↓ -22%
Clover Health Medicare Advantage $668.98 ↓ -22%
United Healthcare Medicare $682.36 ↓ -20%
Emblem Health Commercial $1,170.72 ↑ +37%
Wellcare Ambetter Health Commercial $1,331.27 ↑ +56%
Cigna Local Plus $2,033.00 ↑ +138%
Wellpoint NJ Family Care $2,344.98 ↑ +175%
United Healthcare Oxford Metro $2,445.00 ↑ +187%
First Health Commercial $2,468.40 ↑ +189%
Cigna HMO $2,583.00 ↑ +203%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Omnia $2,672.04 ↑ +213%
Cigna PPO $2,721.00 ↑ +219%
Qualcare Inc HMO/POS $2,744.03 ↑ +222%
United Healthcare Nexus $2,751.00 ↑ +222%
United Healthcare Oxford Commercial $2,877.00 ↑ +237%
Qualcare Inc PPO/WC $2,925.05 ↑ +243%
Amerihealth Local Value $3,013.91 ↑ +253%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey State Benefit Plan $3,085.50 ↑ +262%
Amerihealth Regional Preferred $3,218.79 ↑ +277%
United Healthcare Commercial $3,236.00 ↑ +279%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Managed $3,239.36 ↑ +280%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Non-Managed $3,292.43 ↑ +286%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Worker's Comp $3,496.90 ↑ +310%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey PIP $3,763.89 ↑ +341%
Aetna PPO $5,009.00 ↑ +487%
Aetna HMO $5,009.00 ↑ +487%

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Low cost skin substitute app at other New-jersey hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center Livingston $1,389.00 $31.08 – $1,373.52
Clara Maass Medical Center Belleville $1,295.23 $30.70 – $1,366.65
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Newark $1,365.40 $56.35 – $1,373.52
Jersey City Medical Center Jersey City $854.88 $33.70 – $1,434.55
Monmouth Medical Center Long Branch $900.14 $61.40 – $1,348.30
JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute (JRI) Edison $678.13 $37.44 – $678.13
Jersey Shore University Medical Center Neptune City $677.54 $677.54 – $813.05
Palisades Medical Center North Bergen $720.88 $720.88 – $785.76

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