CT orbit/sella/ or posterior outer inner or middle ear w/contrast at Berkeley Medical Center

2500 Hospital Dr, Martinsburg, WV · Wvumedicine · · NPI 1457389249

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Jul 9, 2026 · Ingested Sep 16, 2026

$1,081.50

Cash price

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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.

$2,163.00

Gross charge

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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.

$39.89 with highmark health options vs $295.42 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
highmark health options chip $39.89 ↓ -96%
wellpoint wv chip $39.89 ↓ -96%
wellpoint west virginia mgd mcaid $39.89 ↓ -96%
highmark health options west va mgd mcaid $39.89 ↓ -96%
the health plan wv mgd mcaid $40.46 ↓ -96%
aetna better health wv mgd medicaid $40.65 ↓ -96%
aetna better health wv chip $40.65 ↓ -96%
the health plan wv chip $40.65 ↓ -96%
aetna better health va mgd medicaid $138.03 ↓ -87%
peak health medicare advantage all plans $168.81 ↓ -84%
united mine workers of america medicare advantage united mine workers of america medicare advantage $168.81 ↓ -84%
highmark wholecare pa medicare advantage all pla $173.87 ↓ -84%
highmark wv medicare advantage all plans $175.56 ↓ -84%
senior life medicare advantage all plans $177.25 ↓ -84%
humana medicare advantage all plans $177.25 ↓ -84%
pa health & wellness medicare advantage all plan $177.25 ↓ -84%
aetna medicare advantage all plans $177.25 ↓ -84%
the health plan wv medicare advantage all plans $178.94 ↓ -83%
wv senior advantage isnp $178.94 ↓ -83%
valor health medicare advantage all plans $178.94 ↓ -83%
geisinger pa medicare advantage all plans $178.94 ↓ -83%
unitedhealthcare medicare advantage all plans $184.00 ↓ -83%
caresource oh exchange caresource oh exchange $253.22 ↓ -77%
encova worker's compensation $253.22 ↓ -77%
rockport healthcare group worker's compensation $261.66 ↓ -76%
coventry health care worker's compensation $266.72 ↓ -75%
alliance coal alliance coal $295.42 ↓ -73%

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CT orbit/sella/ or posterior outer inner or middle ear w/contrast at other West-virginia hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Jefferson Medical Center Ranson $884.50 not published
West Virginia University Hospitals Morgantown $1,633.50 $39.89 – $715.25
Grant Memorial Hospital Petersburg $778.40 not published
Reynolds Memorial Hospital Glen Dale $1,258.50 $39.89 – $293.00
Summersville Regional Medical Center Summersville $896.00 not published
Braxton County Memorial Hospital Gassaway $340.50 not published
United Hospital Center Bridgeport $1,097.00 $39.89 – $316.44
Jackson General Hospital Ripley $782.00 not published

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