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

$885.59

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.

$4,270.00

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.

$74.60 with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey vs $12,887.00 with Cigna — 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 $74.60 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Community Plan $529.90 ↓ -40%
Fidelis Care NJ Family Care $539.72 ↓ -39%
Aetna Better Health $579.86 ↓ -35%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Medicare Advantage $1,999.13 ↑ +126%
Humana Medicare $1,999.13 ↑ +126%
Aetna Medicare $1,999.13 ↑ +126%
Wellpoint Medicare Advantage $1,999.13 ↑ +126%
Clover Health Medicare Advantage $1,999.13 ↑ +126%
Fidelis Care Medicare Advantage $1,999.13 ↑ +126%
United Healthcare Medicare $2,039.11 ↑ +130%
Wellpoint NJ Family Care $2,433.90 ↑ +175%
First Health Commercial $2,562.00 ↑ +189%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Omnia $2,773.36 ↑ +213%
Qualcare Inc HMO/POS $2,848.09 ↑ +222%
Qualcare Inc PPO/WC $3,035.97 ↑ +243%
Amerihealth Local Value $3,128.20 ↑ +253%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey State Benefit Plan $3,202.50 ↑ +262%
Amerihealth Regional Preferred $3,340.84 ↑ +277%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Managed $3,362.19 ↑ +280%
United Healthcare Oxford Metro $3,417.00 ↑ +286%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Non-Managed $3,417.28 ↑ +286%
Emblem Health Commercial $3,498.48 ↑ +295%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Worker's Comp $3,629.50 ↑ +310%
United Healthcare Nexus $3,845.00 ↑ +334%
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey PIP $3,906.62 ↑ +341%
Wellcare Ambetter Health Commercial $3,978.27 ↑ +349%
United Healthcare Oxford Commercial $4,020.00 ↑ +354%
United Healthcare Commercial $4,523.00 ↑ +411%
Aetna HMO $5,009.00 ↑ +466%
Aetna PPO $5,009.00 ↑ +466%
Cigna Local Plus $9,629.00 ↑ +987%
Cigna HMO $12,235.00 ↑ +1282%
Cigna PPO $12,887.00 ↑ +1355%

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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 $904.81 $72.84 – $4,104.50
Clara Maass Medical Center Belleville $1,084.80 $71.96 – $4,083.98
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Newark $889.44 $132.08 – $4,104.50
Jersey City Medical Center Jersey City $887.30 $78.98 – $4,286.88
Monmouth Medical Center Long Branch $934.27 $143.93 – $4,029.15
JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute (JRI) Edison $2,026.46 $87.76 – $2,026.46
Jersey Shore University Medical Center Neptune City $2,024.70 $2,024.70 – $2,429.64
Palisades Medical Center North Bergen $2,154.21 $2,154.21 – $2,348.09

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