Shoulder MRI (with contrast) at United Hospital Center
327 Medical Park Dr, Bridgeport, WV · Wvumedicine · · NPI 1184606600
$1,886.00
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.
$3,772.00
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.
$57.39 with highmark health options vs $1,414.23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| highmark health options | chip | $57.39 | ↓ -97% |
| highmark health options west va | mgd mcaid | $57.39 | ↓ -97% |
| wellpoint wv | chip | $57.39 | ↓ -97% |
| wellpoint west virginia | mgd mcaid | $57.39 | ↓ -97% |
| the health plan wv | mgd mcaid | $58.21 | ↓ -97% |
| aetna | better health mgd medicaid | $58.49 | ↓ -97% |
| the health plan wv | chip | $58.49 | ↓ -97% |
| aetna better health wv | chip | $58.49 | ↓ -97% |
| peak health medicare advantage | all plans | $808.13 | ↓ -57% |
| united mine workers of america medicare advantage | united mine workers of america medicare advantage | $808.13 | ↓ -57% |
| highmark wv medicare advantage | all plans | $840.46 | ↓ -55% |
| pa health & wellness medicare advantage | all plan | $848.54 | ↓ -55% |
| aetna medicare advantage | all plans | $848.54 | ↓ -55% |
| humana medicare advantage | all plans | $848.54 | ↓ -55% |
| senior life medicare advantage | all plans | $848.54 | ↓ -55% |
| the health plan wv medicare advantage | all plans | $856.62 | ↓ -55% |
| wv senior advantage | isnp | $856.62 | ↓ -55% |
| unitedhealthcare medicare advantage | all plans | $880.86 | ↓ -53% |
| caresource oh exchange | caresource oh exchange | $1,212.20 | ↓ -36% |
| encova | worker's compensation | $1,212.20 | ↓ -36% |
| rockport healthcare group | worker's compensation | $1,252.60 | ↓ -34% |
| coventry health care | worker's compensation | $1,276.85 | ↓ -32% |
| alliance coal | alliance coal | $1,414.23 | ↓ -25% |
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Shoulder MRI (with contrast) at other West-virginia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Jefferson Medical Center | Ranson | $1,381.50 | not published |
| West Virginia University Hospitals | Morgantown | $2,088.00 | $57.39 – $3,196.69 |
| Grant Memorial Hospital | Petersburg | $2,831.20 | not published |
| Reynolds Memorial Hospital | Glen Dale | $2,310.00 | $57.39 – $1,309.52 |
| Summersville Regional Medical Center | Summersville | $1,398.00 | not published |
| Berkeley Medical Center | Martinsburg | $1,353.50 | $57.39 – $1,320.30 |
| Jackson General Hospital | Ripley | $1,168.00 | not published |
| Potomac Valley Hospital | Keyser | $1,313.00 | not published |