Brain image 4+ views at United Hospital Center
327 Medical Park Dr, Bridgeport, WV · Wvumedicine · · NPI 1184606600
$978.50
Cash price 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.
$1,957.00
Gross charge 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.
$18.78 with highmark health options vs $979.54 with alliance coal — 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.
Full explanation →
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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.
Full explanation →Payer ?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. Full explanation → |
Plan ?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. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| highmark health options | chip | $18.78 | ↓ -98% |
| highmark health options west va | mgd mcaid | $18.78 | ↓ -98% |
| wellpoint wv | chip | $18.78 | ↓ -98% |
| wellpoint west virginia | mgd mcaid | $18.78 | ↓ -98% |
| the health plan wv | mgd mcaid | $19.05 | ↓ -98% |
| aetna | better health mgd medicaid | $19.14 | ↓ -98% |
| the health plan wv | chip | $19.14 | ↓ -98% |
| aetna better health wv | chip | $19.14 | ↓ -98% |
| peak health medicare advantage | all plans | $559.74 | ↓ -43% |
| united mine workers of america medicare advantage | united mine workers of america medicare advantage | $559.74 | ↓ -43% |
| highmark wv medicare advantage | all plans | $582.13 | ↓ -41% |
| pa health & wellness medicare advantage | all plan | $587.73 | ↓ -40% |
| aetna medicare advantage | all plans | $587.73 | ↓ -40% |
| humana medicare advantage | all plans | $587.73 | ↓ -40% |
| senior life medicare advantage | all plans | $587.73 | ↓ -40% |
| the health plan wv medicare advantage | all plans | $593.32 | ↓ -39% |
| wv senior advantage | isnp | $593.32 | ↓ -39% |
| unitedhealthcare medicare advantage | all plans | $610.12 | ↓ -38% |
| caresource oh exchange | caresource oh exchange | $839.61 | ↓ -14% |
| encova | worker's compensation | $839.61 | ↓ -14% |
| rockport healthcare group | worker's compensation | $867.60 | ↓ -11% |
| coventry health care | worker's compensation | $884.39 | ↓ -10% |
| alliance coal | alliance coal | $979.54 | ↑ +0% |
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Brain image 4+ views at other West-virginia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Reynolds Memorial Hospital | Glen Dale | $1,764.50 | $18.78 – $907.02 |
| Camden Clark Medical Center | Parkersburg | $978.50 | $18.78 – $907.02 |