X-ray exam of middle ear at United Hospital Center
327 Medical Park Dr, Bridgeport, WV · Wvumedicine · · NPI 1184606600
$283.00
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.
$566.00
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.
$12.61 with highmark health options vs $985.77 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 | $12.61 | ↓ -96% |
| highmark health options west va | mgd mcaid | $12.61 | ↓ -96% |
| wellpoint wv | chip | $12.61 | ↓ -96% |
| wellpoint west virginia | mgd mcaid | $12.61 | ↓ -96% |
| the health plan wv | mgd mcaid | $12.79 | ↓ -95% |
| aetna | better health mgd medicaid | $12.85 | ↓ -95% |
| the health plan wv | chip | $12.85 | ↓ -95% |
| aetna better health wv | chip | $12.85 | ↓ -95% |
| peak health medicare advantage | all plans | $563.30 | ↑ +99% |
| united mine workers of america medicare advantage | united mine workers of america medicare advantage | $563.30 | ↑ +99% |
| highmark wv medicare advantage | all plans | $585.83 | ↑ +107% |
| pa health & wellness medicare advantage | all plan | $591.46 | ↑ +109% |
| aetna medicare advantage | all plans | $591.46 | ↑ +109% |
| humana medicare advantage | all plans | $591.46 | ↑ +109% |
| senior life medicare advantage | all plans | $591.46 | ↑ +109% |
| the health plan wv medicare advantage | all plans | $597.10 | ↑ +111% |
| wv senior advantage | isnp | $597.10 | ↑ +111% |
| unitedhealthcare medicare advantage | all plans | $614.00 | ↑ +117% |
| caresource oh exchange | caresource oh exchange | $844.95 | ↑ +199% |
| encova | worker's compensation | $844.95 | ↑ +199% |
| rockport healthcare group | worker's compensation | $873.12 | ↑ +209% |
| coventry health care | worker's compensation | $890.01 | ↑ +214% |
| alliance coal | alliance coal | $985.77 | ↑ +248% |
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X-ray exam of middle ear at other West-virginia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| West Virginia University Hospitals | Morgantown | $321.00 | $12.61 – $1,393.77 |
| Reynolds Memorial Hospital | Glen Dale | $334.50 | $12.61 – $912.76 |
| Summersville Regional Medical Center | Summersville | $556.50 | not published |
| Wetzel County Hospital | New Martinsville | $263.50 | $12.61 – $977.58 |
| Camden Clark Medical Center | Parkersburg | $283.00 | $12.61 – $912.76 |