Uric acid blood 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

$47.50

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.

$95.00

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.

$4.27 with wellpoint wv vs $7.14 with coventry health care — 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
wellpoint wv chip $4.27 ↓ -91%
wellpoint west virginia mgd mcaid $4.27 ↓ -91%
highmark health options chip $4.27 ↓ -91%
highmark health options west va mgd mcaid $4.27 ↓ -91%
the health plan wv mgd mcaid $4.33 ↓ -91%
the health plan wv chip $4.35 ↓ -91%
aetna better health wv mgd medicaid $4.35 ↓ -91%
aetna better health wv chip $4.35 ↓ -91%
peak health medicare advantage all plans $4.52 ↓ -90%
united mine workers of america medicare advantage united mine workers of america medicare advantage $4.52 ↓ -90%
highmark wholecare pa medicare advantage all pla $4.66 ↓ -90%
highmark wv medicare advantage all plans $4.70 ↓ -90%
senior life medicare advantage all plans $4.75 ↓ -90%
humana medicare advantage all plans $4.75 ↓ -90%
pa health & wellness medicare advantage all plan $4.75 ↓ -90%
aetna medicare advantage all plans $4.75 ↓ -90%
valor health medicare advantage all plans $4.79 ↓ -90%
the health plan wv medicare advantage all plans $4.79 ↓ -90%
wv senior advantage isnp $4.79 ↓ -90%
geisinger pa medicare advantage all plans $4.79 ↓ -90%
unitedhealthcare medicare advantage all plans $4.93 ↓ -90%
alliance coal alliance coal $5.65 ↓ -88%
aetna better health va mgd medicaid $6.68 ↓ -86%
caresource oh exchange caresource oh exchange $6.78 ↓ -86%
encova worker's compensation $6.78 ↓ -86%
rockport healthcare group worker's compensation $7.01 ↓ -85%
coventry health care worker's compensation $7.14 ↓ -85%

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Uric acid blood at other West-virginia hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Jefferson Medical Center Ranson $42.50 not published
West Virginia University Hospitals Morgantown $29.00 $2.94 – $19.15
Grant Memorial Hospital Petersburg $10.40 not published
Reynolds Memorial Hospital Glen Dale $42.00 $2.94 – $7.14
Summersville Regional Medical Center Summersville $35.00 not published
Braxton County Memorial Hospital Gassaway $24.00 not published
United Hospital Center Bridgeport $34.50 $4.27 – $7.14
Jackson General Hospital Ripley $31.50 not published

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