Compre oph exam est pt 1/> 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

$228.50

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.

$457.00

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.

$47.54 with highmark health options vs $202.48 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
highmark health options chip $47.54 ↓ -79%
upmc for you medicaid upmc for you medicaid $47.54 ↓ -79%
pennsylvania health and wellness mgd medicaid $49.81 ↓ -78%
upmc for kids chip $49.81 ↓ -78%
amerihealth caritas pa medicaid $50.71 ↓ -78%
geisinger pennsylvania mgd medicaid $54.34 ↓ -76%
wellpoint west virginia mgd mcaid $54.82 ↓ -76%
wellpoint wv chip $54.82 ↓ -76%
highmark health options west va mgd mcaid $54.82 ↓ -76%
the health plan wv mgd mcaid $55.60 ↓ -76%
aetna better health mgd medicaid $55.86 ↓ -76%
the health plan wv chip $55.86 ↓ -76%
aetna better health wv chip $55.86 ↓ -76%
highmark wholecare pennsylvania medicaid highmark wholecare pennsylvania medicaid $83.30 ↓ -64%
united mine workers of america medicare advantage united mine workers of america medicare advantage $128.15 ↓ -44%
highmark pa medicare advantage hmo $128.15 ↓ -44%
peak health medicare advantage all plans $128.15 ↓ -44%
molina oh medicare advantage all plans $128.15 ↓ -44%
highmark wholecare pa medicare advantage all pla $131.99 ↓ -42%
highmark wv medicare advantage all plans $133.28 ↓ -42%
pa health & wellness medicare advantage all plan $134.56 ↓ -41%
humana medicare advantage all plans $134.56 ↓ -41%
buckeye oh medicare advantage all plans $134.56 ↓ -41%
upmc for life medicare advantage all plans $134.56 ↓ -41%
aetna medicare advantage all plans $134.56 ↓ -41%
valor health medicare advantage all plans $135.84 ↓ -41%
the health plan wv medicare advantage all plans $135.84 ↓ -41%
wv senior advantage isnp $135.84 ↓ -41%
geisinger pa medicare advantage all plans $135.84 ↓ -41%
unitedhealthcare medicare advantage all plans $139.68 ↓ -39%
the health plan wv peia $143.78 ↓ -37%
caresource oh exchange caresource oh exchange $192.22 ↓ -16%
buckeye commercial exchange plan $192.22 ↓ -16%
encova worker's compensation $192.22 ↓ -16%
rockport healthcare group worker's compensation $198.63 ↓ -13%
coventry health care worker's compensation $202.48 ↓ -11%

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Jefferson Medical Center Ranson $70.00 not published
Grant Memorial Hospital Petersburg $112.00 not published
Summersville Regional Medical Center Summersville $76.00 not published
Braxton County Memorial Hospital Gassaway $70.00 not published
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Potomac Valley Hospital Keyser $70.00 not published
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