Foreign body removal cost in New Jersey

In New Jersey, 51 hospitals publish a cash price for removal of a foreign object under the skin, simple: from $63.30 to $6,839.00, with a median of $544.82. The lowest price is at Virtua Memorial Hospital (Mount Holly) and 4 other hospitals. The highest price is 108.0× the lowest.

• The median here, $544.82, is 12% above the US median of $484.50.
• That is 1.3× Medicare's 2026 national rate for the same service ($415.32).
• New Jersey ranks 33rd of 50 states by median, cheapest first.
• 11 of 51 hospitals list a cash price equal to their full list price, with no self-pay discount.

Why New Jersey prices look low: under state law (P.L.2008, c.60), a hospital may not charge an uninsured New Jersey resident whose family income is below 500% of the federal poverty level more than 115% of what Medicare pays for the same service. If that is you, ask the hospital's billing office to apply this limit; a separate physician fee may still apply. Other states' laws.

Outpatient cash prices, one line per hospital — its lowest listed price for code 10120. Prices for both sides of the body and inpatient prices are not mixed in. Collected Nov 12, 2026. See them on a map