Office visit, new patient (level 5) Cost in Newark, NJ

Prices at 3 hospitals in Newark, NJ, from their machine-readable files. Here the median cash price is $169 — 47% below the US median ($318), roughly 0.7× the Medicare rate.

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Hospital	Location	Cash	Insurer	CMS rating	ER wait	Readmit
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center	Newark, NJ	$169	$464	★ 2/5	176 min	—

CMS rating = overall hospital star rating (1–5); ER wait = median minutes in the emergency department; Readmit = 30-day readmission rate (lower is better) — all from Medicare’s Care Compare; “—” = not reported. Data last updated October 2026. Prices from hospitals’ machine-readable files (45 CFR §180); Medicare benchmark from CMS PFS/CLFS/IPPS. Prices below 15% of the median are excluded as likely partial or mis-coded charges. Estimates — confirm with the hospital. Report an incorrect price.

Price comparison (median)

Chargemaster (list price)

$809

Cash / self-pay

$169

Insurer-negotiated

$223

Medicare pays

$237

Is this a fair price?

1× Medicarefair ≈2×5×+

Typical cash price here is $169 — about 0.7× the Medicare rate ($237). Reasonable. A fair cash price is usually within ~2× Medicare ($474).

💡 Asking for the cash price instead of the $809 list price could save about $640 (79%).

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Doctors who perform this in Newark

Clinicians who reported the most Medicare volume for this service locally. This reflects Original Medicare activity only and is a volume signal, not a quality ranking.

Clinician	Specialty	Location	Medicare services
Naveen Tyagi, M.D.	Pulmonary Disease	Newark, NJ	122
Nandini Ignatius, MD	Hematology-Oncology	Newark, NJ	37
Lauren Elreda, MD	Hematology-Oncology	Newark, NJ	36
Justin Pi, M.D.	Internal Medicine	Newark, NJ	30
Gunwant Guron, MD	Hematology-Oncology	Newark, NJ	29
Ravindra Karanam, MD	Thoracic Surgery	Newark, NJ	24
Divya Goldstein, MD	Cardiology	Newark, NJ	23
Louis Stein, MD, PHD	Thoracic Surgery	Newark, NJ	22
Aziz Merchant, MD	General Surgery	Newark, NJ	19
Amy Lam, OD, MS	Optometry	Newark, NJ	18
Larry Frohman, M.D.	Ophthalmology	Newark, NJ	18
Roger Turbin, MD	Ophthalmology	Newark, NJ	16

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