Adenovirus assay w/optic at West Virginia University Hospitals

1 Medical Center Dr, Morgantown, WV · Wvumedicine · · NPI 1841271459

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

$44.00

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.

$88.00

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.

$12.93 with upmc for you medicaid vs $34.38 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
upmc for you medicaid upmc for you medicaid $12.93 ↓ -71%
highmark health options chip $12.93 ↓ -71%
pennsylvania health and wellness mgd medicaid $13.54 ↓ -69%
upmc for kids chip $13.54 ↓ -69%
amerihealth caritas pa medicaid $13.79 ↓ -69%
highmark wholecare pennsylvania medicaid highmark wholecare pennsylvania medicaid $14.14 ↓ -68%
geisinger pennsylvania mgd medicaid $14.77 ↓ -66%
wellpoint wv chip $20.56 ↓ -53%
highmark health options west va mgd mcaid $20.56 ↓ -53%
wellpoint west virginia mgd mcaid $20.56 ↓ -53%
the health plan wv mgd mcaid $20.85 ↓ -53%
aetna better health wv chip $20.95 ↓ -52%
aetna better health mgd medicaid $20.95 ↓ -52%
the health plan wv chip $20.95 ↓ -52%
highmark pa medicare advantage hmo $21.76 ↓ -51%
peak health medicare advantage all plans $21.76 ↓ -51%
molina oh medicare advantage all plans $21.76 ↓ -51%
united mine workers of america medicare advantage united mine workers of america medicare advantage $21.76 ↓ -51%
highmark wholecare pa medicare advantage all pla $22.41 ↓ -49%
highmark wv medicare advantage all plans $22.63 ↓ -49%
buckeye oh medicare advantage all plans $22.85 ↓ -48%
humana medicare advantage all plans $22.85 ↓ -48%
upmc for life medicare advantage all plans $22.85 ↓ -48%
aetna medicare advantage all plans $22.85 ↓ -48%
pa health & wellness medicare advantage all plan $22.85 ↓ -48%
the health plan wv medicare advantage all plans $23.07 ↓ -48%
valor health medicare advantage all plans $23.07 ↓ -48%
wv senior advantage isnp $23.07 ↓ -48%
geisinger pa medicare advantage all plans $23.07 ↓ -48%
unitedhealthcare medicare advantage all plans $23.72 ↓ -46%
the health plan wv peia $24.41 ↓ -45%
alliance coal alliance coal $27.20 ↓ -38%
encova worker's compensation $32.64 ↓ -26%
buckeye commercial exchange plan $32.64 ↓ -26%
caresource oh exchange caresource oh exchange $32.64 ↓ -26%
rockport healthcare group worker's compensation $33.73 ↓ -23%
coventry health care worker's compensation $34.38 ↓ -22%

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