ER Visit (level 3) at United Hospital Center
327 Medical Park Dr, Bridgeport, WV · Wvumedicine · · NPI 1184606600
$479.00
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.
$958.00
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.
$102.64 with highmark health options vs $492.45 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 | $102.64 | ↓ -79% |
| highmark health options west va | mgd mcaid | $102.64 | ↓ -79% |
| wellpoint wv | chip | $102.64 | ↓ -79% |
| wellpoint west virginia | mgd mcaid | $102.64 | ↓ -79% |
| the health plan wv | mgd mcaid | $104.10 | ↓ -78% |
| aetna | better health mgd medicaid | $104.59 | ↓ -78% |
| the health plan wv | chip | $104.59 | ↓ -78% |
| aetna better health wv | chip | $104.59 | ↓ -78% |
| peak health medicare advantage | all plans | $281.40 | ↓ -41% |
| united mine workers of america medicare advantage | united mine workers of america medicare advantage | $281.40 | ↓ -41% |
| highmark wv medicare advantage | all plans | $292.66 | ↓ -39% |
| pa health & wellness medicare advantage | all plan | $295.47 | ↓ -38% |
| aetna medicare advantage | all plans | $295.47 | ↓ -38% |
| humana medicare advantage | all plans | $295.47 | ↓ -38% |
| senior life medicare advantage | all plans | $295.47 | ↓ -38% |
| the health plan wv medicare advantage | all plans | $298.28 | ↓ -38% |
| wv senior advantage | isnp | $298.28 | ↓ -38% |
| unitedhealthcare medicare advantage | all plans | $306.73 | ↓ -36% |
| caresource oh exchange | caresource oh exchange | $422.10 | ↓ -12% |
| encova | worker's compensation | $422.10 | ↓ -12% |
| rockport healthcare group | worker's compensation | $436.17 | ↓ -9% |
| coventry health care | worker's compensation | $444.61 | ↓ -7% |
| alliance coal | alliance coal | $492.45 | ↑ +3% |
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ER Visit (level 3) at other West-virginia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Jefferson Medical Center | Ranson | $269.50 | not published |
| West Virginia University Hospitals | Morgantown | $814.50 | $56.65 – $1,113.18 |
| Grant Memorial Hospital | Petersburg | $593.60 | not published |
| Reynolds Memorial Hospital | Glen Dale | $530.50 | $62.32 – $456.01 |
| Summersville Regional Medical Center | Summersville | $415.00 | not published |
| Berkeley Medical Center | Martinsburg | $314.00 | $102.64 – $459.76 |
| Braxton County Memorial Hospital | Gassaway | $207.00 | not published |
| Jackson General Hospital | Ripley | $585.50 | not published |