Rutgers Health - University Behavioral Health Care: no cash price published
Piscataway, NJ
Rutgers Health - University Behavioral Health Care publishes a machine-readable price file with 72 items, but it lists no discounted cash price for any of them: the price a patient pays without insurance is left empty. So we cannot show a cash price for this hospital or count it in any comparison. To pay out of pocket here, call the hospital and ask for its self-pay price.
What you can do
- Call the billing office, give the procedure's CPT code, and ask for the self-pay (cash) price. Many hospitals discount it even when the file does not show one.
- If you are uninsured or not using insurance, the hospital must give you a Good Faith Estimate in writing when you schedule a service at least three business days ahead.
- Compare with hospitals that do publish cash prices in the New York, NY area.
Financial assistance
Public hospital: ask for its charity care or sliding-scale discount
Rutgers Health - University Behavioral Health Care is government-owned (CMS register). The federal financial assistance rules for nonprofit hospitals do not always apply to public ones, but many public hospitals run charity care or sliding-scale discounts for uninsured and low-income patients. Ask the billing office for its financial assistance or charity care policy and application before you pay. Letters you can copy.
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The hospital's price file
- Price file: 72 items
Federal price transparency rules (45 CFR 180.50) list the discounted cash price among the standard charges a hospital publishes. We read every line of the file; if the hospital adds cash prices, they appear here after our next pass. Other US hospitals with no cash price in their files.