Explore/irrigate tear ducts 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

$929.00

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.

$1,858.00

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.

$36.75 with highmark health options vs $809.63 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 $36.75 ↓ -96%
upmc for you medicaid upmc for you medicaid $36.75 ↓ -96%
upmc for kids chip $38.50 ↓ -96%
pennsylvania health and wellness mgd medicaid $38.50 ↓ -96%
amerihealth caritas pa medicaid $39.20 ↓ -96%
geisinger pennsylvania mgd medicaid $42.00 ↓ -95%
wellpoint west virginia mgd mcaid $105.00 ↓ -89%
wellpoint wv chip $105.00 ↓ -89%
highmark health options west va mgd mcaid $105.00 ↓ -89%
the health plan wv mgd mcaid $106.50 ↓ -89%
aetna better health mgd medicaid $107.00 ↓ -88%
the health plan wv chip $107.00 ↓ -88%
aetna better health wv chip $107.00 ↓ -88%
highmark wholecare pennsylvania medicaid highmark wholecare pennsylvania medicaid $198.59 ↓ -79%
united mine workers of america medicare advantage united mine workers of america medicare advantage $305.52 ↓ -67%
peak health medicare advantage all plans $305.52 ↓ -67%
highmark pa medicare advantage hmo $305.52 ↓ -67%
molina oh medicare advantage all plans $305.52 ↓ -67%
highmark wholecare pa medicare advantage all pla $314.69 ↓ -66%
highmark wv medicare advantage all plans $317.74 ↓ -66%
upmc for life medicare advantage all plans $320.80 ↓ -65%
humana medicare advantage all plans $320.80 ↓ -65%
pa health & wellness medicare advantage all plan $320.80 ↓ -65%
buckeye oh medicare advantage all plans $320.80 ↓ -65%
aetna medicare advantage all plans $320.80 ↓ -65%
the health plan wv medicare advantage all plans $323.85 ↓ -65%
wv senior advantage isnp $323.85 ↓ -65%
geisinger pa medicare advantage all plans $323.85 ↓ -65%
valor health medicare advantage all plans $323.85 ↓ -65%
unitedhealthcare medicare advantage all plans $333.02 ↓ -64%
the health plan wv peia $342.79 ↓ -63%
encova worker's compensation $458.28 ↓ -51%
buckeye commercial exchange plan $458.28 ↓ -51%
caresource oh exchange caresource oh exchange $458.28 ↓ -51%
rockport healthcare group worker's compensation $473.56 ↓ -49%
coventry health care worker's compensation $482.72 ↓ -48%
alliance coal alliance coal $809.63 ↓ -13%

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Explore/irrigate tear ducts at other West-virginia hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Jefferson Medical Center Ranson $112.50 not published
Grant Memorial Hospital Petersburg $180.00 not published
Reynolds Memorial Hospital Glen Dale $814.00 $36.75 – $530.22
Summersville Regional Medical Center Summersville $116.50 not published
Braxton County Memorial Hospital Gassaway $112.50 not published
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Jackson General Hospital Ripley $116.50 not published
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