Thyroid imaging at West Virginia University Hospitals
1 Medical Center Dr, Morgantown, WV · Wvumedicine · · NPI 1841271459
$511.50
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.
$1,023.00
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.
$12.87 with highmark health options west va vs $1,019.72 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 west va | mgd mcaid | $12.87 | ↓ -97% |
| wellpoint west virginia | mgd mcaid | $12.87 | ↓ -97% |
| wellpoint wv | chip | $12.87 | ↓ -97% |
| the health plan wv | mgd mcaid | $13.06 | ↓ -97% |
| the health plan wv | chip | $13.12 | ↓ -97% |
| aetna better health wv | chip | $13.12 | ↓ -97% |
| aetna | better health mgd medicaid | $13.12 | ↓ -97% |
| upmc for you medicaid | upmc for you medicaid | $147.60 | ↓ -71% |
| highmark health options | chip | $147.60 | ↓ -71% |
| upmc for kids | chip | $154.63 | ↓ -70% |
| pennsylvania health and wellness | mgd medicaid | $154.63 | ↓ -70% |
| amerihealth caritas pa | medicaid | $157.44 | ↓ -69% |
| geisinger pennsylvania | mgd medicaid | $168.68 | ↓ -67% |
| highmark wholecare pennsylvania medicaid | highmark wholecare pennsylvania medicaid | $250.12 | ↓ -51% |
| united mine workers of america medicare advantage | united mine workers of america medicare advantage | $384.80 | ↓ -25% |
| peak health medicare advantage | all plans | $384.80 | ↓ -25% |
| highmark pa medicare advantage | hmo | $384.80 | ↓ -25% |
| molina oh medicare advantage | all plans | $384.80 | ↓ -25% |
| highmark wholecare pa medicare advantage | all pla | $396.34 | ↓ -23% |
| highmark wv medicare advantage | all plans | $400.19 | ↓ -22% |
| upmc for life medicare advantage | all plans | $404.04 | ↓ -21% |
| humana medicare advantage | all plans | $404.04 | ↓ -21% |
| pa health & wellness medicare advantage | all plan | $404.04 | ↓ -21% |
| buckeye oh medicare advantage | all plans | $404.04 | ↓ -21% |
| aetna medicare advantage | all plans | $404.04 | ↓ -21% |
| the health plan wv medicare advantage | all plans | $407.89 | ↓ -20% |
| wv senior advantage | isnp | $407.89 | ↓ -20% |
| geisinger pa medicare advantage | all plans | $407.89 | ↓ -20% |
| valor health medicare advantage | all plans | $407.89 | ↓ -20% |
| unitedhealthcare medicare advantage | all plans | $419.43 | ↓ -18% |
| the health plan wv | peia | $431.75 | ↓ -16% |
| encova | worker's compensation | $577.20 | ↑ +13% |
| buckeye commercial | exchange plan | $577.20 | ↑ +13% |
| caresource oh exchange | caresource oh exchange | $577.20 | ↑ +13% |
| rockport healthcare group | worker's compensation | $596.44 | ↑ +17% |
| coventry health care | worker's compensation | $607.98 | ↑ +19% |
| alliance coal | alliance coal | $1,019.72 | ↑ +99% |
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Thyroid imaging at other West-virginia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| United Hospital Center | Bridgeport | $546.00 | $12.87 – $721.21 |
| Wetzel County Hospital | New Martinsville | $371.50 | $12.87 – $715.22 |
| Camden Clark Medical Center | Parkersburg | $546.00 | $12.87 – $667.80 |
| Thomas Hospitals | South Charleston | $821.00 | $12.87 – $1,931.24 |