Parathyroid planar imaging 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

$685.00

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.

$1,370.00

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.

$28.06 with highmark health options vs $673.31 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 $28.06 ↓ -96%
wellpoint wv chip $28.06 ↓ -96%
wellpoint west virginia mgd mcaid $28.06 ↓ -96%
highmark health options west va mgd mcaid $28.06 ↓ -96%
the health plan wv mgd mcaid $28.46 ↓ -96%
aetna better health wv mgd medicaid $28.59 ↓ -96%
aetna better health wv chip $28.59 ↓ -96%
the health plan wv chip $28.59 ↓ -96%
aetna better health va mgd medicaid $66.88 ↓ -90%
peak health medicare advantage all plans $384.75 ↓ -44%
united mine workers of america medicare advantage united mine workers of america medicare advantage $384.75 ↓ -44%
highmark wholecare pa medicare advantage all pla $396.29 ↓ -42%
highmark wv medicare advantage all plans $400.14 ↓ -42%
senior life medicare advantage all plans $403.99 ↓ -41%
humana medicare advantage all plans $403.99 ↓ -41%
pa health & wellness medicare advantage all plan $403.99 ↓ -41%
aetna medicare advantage all plans $403.99 ↓ -41%
the health plan wv medicare advantage all plans $407.84 ↓ -40%
wv senior advantage isnp $407.84 ↓ -40%
valor health medicare advantage all plans $407.84 ↓ -40%
geisinger pa medicare advantage all plans $407.84 ↓ -40%
unitedhealthcare medicare advantage all plans $419.38 ↓ -39%
caresource oh exchange caresource oh exchange $577.12 ↓ -16%
encova worker's compensation $577.12 ↓ -16%
rockport healthcare group worker's compensation $596.36 ↓ -13%
coventry health care worker's compensation $607.90 ↓ -11%
alliance coal alliance coal $673.31 ↓ -2%

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Parathyroid planar imaging at other West-virginia hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Jefferson Medical Center Ranson $594.00 not published
West Virginia University Hospitals Morgantown $888.50 $28.06 – $1,630.21
Grant Memorial Hospital Petersburg $851.20 not published
Reynolds Memorial Hospital Glen Dale $1,559.00 $28.06 – $667.80
Summersville Regional Medical Center Summersville $416.50 not published
Braxton County Memorial Hospital Gassaway $383.00 not published
United Hospital Center Bridgeport $787.00 $28.06 – $721.21
Jackson General Hospital Ripley $560.50 not published

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