Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) X-ray at West Virginia University Hospitals
1 Medical Center Dr, Morgantown, WV · Wvumedicine · · NPI 1841271459
$247.50
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.
$495.00
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.
$7.98 with wellpoint wv vs $426.32 with blue cross blue shield ppo — 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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| wellpoint wv | chip | $7.98 | ↓ -97% |
| wellpoint west virginia | mgd mcaid | $7.98 | ↓ -97% |
| highmark health options | chip | $7.98 | ↓ -97% |
| highmark health options west va | mgd mcaid | $7.98 | ↓ -97% |
| the health plan wv | mgd mcaid | $8.09 | ↓ -97% |
| aetna better health wv | chip | $8.13 | ↓ -97% |
| aetna | better health mgd medicaid | $8.13 | ↓ -97% |
| the health plan wv | chip | $8.13 | ↓ -97% |
| aetna better health pa | chip | $22.50 | ↓ -91% |
| uhc community pa chip | unison kids | $23.18 | ↓ -91% |
| upmc for you medicaid | upmc for you medicaid | $23.63 | ↓ -90% |
| pennsylvania health & wellness | medicaid | $24.75 | ↓ -90% |
| upmc for kids | chip | $24.75 | ↓ -90% |
| pennsylvania health and wellness | mgd medicaid | $24.75 | ↓ -90% |
| amerihealth caritas pa | medicaid | $25.20 | ↓ -90% |
| geisinger pennsylvania | mgd medicaid | $27.00 | ↓ -89% |
| highmark wholecare pennsylvania medicaid | highmark wholecare pennsylvania medicaid | $65.41 | ↓ -74% |
| highmark pa medicare advantage | hmo | $100.63 | ↓ -59% |
| peak health medicare advantage | all plans | $100.63 | ↓ -59% |
| united mine workers of america medicare advantage | united mine workers of america medicare advantage | $100.63 | ↓ -59% |
| molina oh medicare advantage | all plans | $100.63 | ↓ -59% |
| upmc for life medicare advantage | all plans | $100.63 | ↓ -59% |
| caresource oh medicare advantage | all plans | $100.63 | ↓ -59% |
| anthem pathway | anthem pathway | $100.63 | ↓ -59% |
| highmark wholecare pa medicare advantage | all pla | $103.65 | ↓ -58% |
| anthem oh medicare advantage | hmo | $103.65 | ↓ -58% |
| highmark wv medicare advantage | all plans | $104.66 | ↓ -58% |
| senior life pa - ma | certain hospitals | $105.66 | ↓ -57% |
| pa health & wellness medicare advantage | all plan | $105.66 | ↓ -57% |
| aetna medicare advantage | all plans | $105.66 | ↓ -57% |
| humana medicare advantage | all plans | $105.66 | ↓ -57% |
| buckeye oh medicare advantage | all plans | $105.66 | ↓ -57% |
| the health plan wv medicare advantage | all plans | $106.67 | ↓ -57% |
| geisinger pa medicare advantage | all plans | $106.67 | ↓ -57% |
| wv senior advantage | isnp | $106.67 | ↓ -57% |
| valor health medicare advantage | all plans | $106.67 | ↓ -57% |
| unitedhealthcare medicare advantage | all plans | $109.69 | ↓ -56% |
| caresource oh exchange | caresource oh exchange | $110.69 | ↓ -55% |
| the health plan wv | peia | $112.91 | ↓ -54% |
| buckeye commercial | exchange plan | $150.94 | ↓ -39% |
| encova | worker's compensation | $150.94 | ↓ -39% |
| rockport healthcare group | worker's compensation | $155.98 | ↓ -37% |
| coventry health care | worker's compensation | $159.00 | ↓ -36% |
| alliance coal | alliance coal | $176.10 | ↓ -29% |
| blue cross blue shield traditional | blue cross blue shield traditional | $426.32 | ↑ +72% |
| blue cross blue shield ppo | blue cross blue shield ppo | $426.32 | ↑ +72% |
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Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) X-ray at other West-virginia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Jefferson Medical Center | Ranson | $222.50 | not published |
| Grant Memorial Hospital | Petersburg | $173.60 | not published |
| Reynolds Memorial Hospital | Glen Dale | $217.50 | $7.98 – $69.84 |
| Summersville Regional Medical Center | Summersville | $164.50 | not published |
| Berkeley Medical Center | Martinsburg | $192.50 | $7.98 – $70.42 |
| Braxton County Memorial Hospital | Gassaway | $141.00 | not published |
| United Hospital Center | Bridgeport | $203.50 | $7.98 – $188.60 |
| Jackson General Hospital | Ripley | $148.00 | not published |