Muscle test one fiber 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

$327.00

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.

$654.00

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.

$22.05 with highmark health options vs $550.78 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 $22.05 ↓ -93%
upmc for you medicaid upmc for you medicaid $22.05 ↓ -93%
upmc for kids chip $23.10 ↓ -93%
pennsylvania health and wellness mgd medicaid $23.10 ↓ -93%
amerihealth caritas pa medicaid $23.52 ↓ -93%
geisinger pennsylvania mgd medicaid $25.20 ↓ -92%
wellpoint west virginia mgd mcaid $108.60 ↓ -67%
wellpoint wv chip $108.60 ↓ -67%
highmark health options west va mgd mcaid $108.60 ↓ -67%
the health plan wv mgd mcaid $110.15 ↓ -66%
aetna better health mgd medicaid $110.67 ↓ -66%
the health plan wv chip $110.67 ↓ -66%
aetna better health wv chip $110.67 ↓ -66%
highmark wholecare pennsylvania medicaid highmark wholecare pennsylvania medicaid $135.10 ↓ -59%
united mine workers of america medicare advantage united mine workers of america medicare advantage $207.84 ↓ -36%
peak health medicare advantage all plans $207.84 ↓ -36%
highmark pa medicare advantage hmo $207.84 ↓ -36%
molina oh medicare advantage all plans $207.84 ↓ -36%
highmark wholecare pa medicare advantage all pla $214.08 ↓ -35%
highmark wv medicare advantage all plans $216.15 ↓ -34%
upmc for life medicare advantage all plans $218.23 ↓ -33%
humana medicare advantage all plans $218.23 ↓ -33%
pa health & wellness medicare advantage all plan $218.23 ↓ -33%
buckeye oh medicare advantage all plans $218.23 ↓ -33%
aetna medicare advantage all plans $218.23 ↓ -33%
the health plan wv medicare advantage all plans $220.31 ↓ -33%
wv senior advantage isnp $220.31 ↓ -33%
geisinger pa medicare advantage all plans $220.31 ↓ -33%
valor health medicare advantage all plans $220.31 ↓ -33%
unitedhealthcare medicare advantage all plans $226.55 ↓ -31%
the health plan wv peia $233.20 ↓ -29%
encova worker's compensation $311.76 ↓ -5%
buckeye commercial exchange plan $311.76 ↓ -5%
caresource oh exchange caresource oh exchange $311.76 ↓ -5%
rockport healthcare group worker's compensation $322.15 ↓ -1%
coventry health care worker's compensation $328.39 ↑ +0%
alliance coal alliance coal $550.78 ↑ +68%

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Jefferson Medical Center Ranson $170.00 not published
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Reynolds Memorial Hospital Glen Dale $286.50 $22.05 – $360.71
Summersville Regional Medical Center Summersville $149.50 not published
Braxton County Memorial Hospital Gassaway $231.50 not published
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