Biopsy roof of mouth at West Virginia University Hospitals
1 Medical Center Dr, Morgantown, WV · Wvumedicine · · NPI 1841271459
$2,582.00
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.
$5,164.00
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.
$75.08 with highmark health options vs $3,957.72 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 | $75.08 | ↓ -97% |
| upmc for you medicaid | upmc for you medicaid | $75.08 | ↓ -97% |
| upmc for kids | chip | $78.65 | ↓ -97% |
| pennsylvania health and wellness | mgd medicaid | $78.65 | ↓ -97% |
| amerihealth caritas pa | medicaid | $80.08 | ↓ -97% |
| geisinger pennsylvania | mgd medicaid | $85.80 | ↓ -97% |
| wellpoint west virginia | mgd mcaid | $105.00 | ↓ -96% |
| wellpoint wv | chip | $105.00 | ↓ -96% |
| highmark health options west va | mgd mcaid | $105.00 | ↓ -96% |
| the health plan wv | mgd mcaid | $106.50 | ↓ -96% |
| aetna | better health mgd medicaid | $107.00 | ↓ -96% |
| the health plan wv | chip | $107.00 | ↓ -96% |
| aetna better health wv | chip | $107.00 | ↓ -96% |
| highmark wholecare pennsylvania medicaid | highmark wholecare pennsylvania medicaid | $970.76 | ↓ -62% |
| united mine workers of america medicare advantage | united mine workers of america medicare advantage | $1,493.48 | ↓ -42% |
| peak health medicare advantage | all plans | $1,493.48 | ↓ -42% |
| highmark pa medicare advantage | hmo | $1,493.48 | ↓ -42% |
| molina oh medicare advantage | all plans | $1,493.48 | ↓ -42% |
| highmark wholecare pa medicare advantage | all pla | $1,538.28 | ↓ -40% |
| highmark wv medicare advantage | all plans | $1,553.22 | ↓ -40% |
| upmc for life medicare advantage | all plans | $1,568.15 | ↓ -39% |
| humana medicare advantage | all plans | $1,568.15 | ↓ -39% |
| pa health & wellness medicare advantage | all plan | $1,568.15 | ↓ -39% |
| buckeye oh medicare advantage | all plans | $1,568.15 | ↓ -39% |
| aetna medicare advantage | all plans | $1,568.15 | ↓ -39% |
| the health plan wv medicare advantage | all plans | $1,583.09 | ↓ -39% |
| wv senior advantage | isnp | $1,583.09 | ↓ -39% |
| geisinger pa medicare advantage | all plans | $1,583.09 | ↓ -39% |
| valor health medicare advantage | all plans | $1,583.09 | ↓ -39% |
| unitedhealthcare medicare advantage | all plans | $1,627.89 | ↓ -37% |
| the health plan wv | peia | $1,675.68 | ↓ -35% |
| encova | worker's compensation | $2,240.22 | ↓ -13% |
| buckeye commercial | exchange plan | $2,240.22 | ↓ -13% |
| caresource oh exchange | caresource oh exchange | $2,240.22 | ↓ -13% |
| rockport healthcare group | worker's compensation | $2,314.89 | ↓ -10% |
| coventry health care | worker's compensation | $2,359.70 | ↓ -9% |
| alliance coal | alliance coal | $3,957.72 | ↑ +53% |
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Biopsy roof of mouth at other West-virginia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Berkeley Medical Center | Martinsburg | $1,913.00 | $76.51 – $2,613.26 |
| United Hospital Center | Bridgeport | $1,783.50 | $105.00 – $2,799.14 |
| Camden Clark Medical Center | Parkersburg | $1,783.50 | $105.00 – $2,591.89 |
| Princeton Community Hospital | Princeton | $1,124.75 | $71.50 – $9,239.16 |
| Weirton Medical Center | Weirton | $8,549.50 | $71.50 – $7,537.81 |
| Beckley ARH Hospital | Beckley | $172.20 | $81.07 – $95.83 |