Volume measurement urine timed at West Virginia University Hospitals
1 Medical Center Dr, Morgantown, WV · Wvumedicine · · NPI 1841271459
$3.00
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.
$6.00
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.
$2.37 with highmark wholecare pennsylvania medicaid vs $5.75 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.
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 wholecare pennsylvania medicaid | highmark wholecare pennsylvania medicaid | $2.37 | ↓ -21% |
| wellpoint west virginia | mgd mcaid | $3.44 | ↑ +15% |
| wellpoint wv | chip | $3.44 | ↑ +15% |
| highmark health options west va | mgd mcaid | $3.44 | ↑ +15% |
| the health plan wv | mgd mcaid | $3.49 | ↑ +16% |
| the health plan wv | chip | $3.51 | ↑ +17% |
| aetna better health wv | chip | $3.51 | ↑ +17% |
| aetna | better health mgd medicaid | $3.51 | ↑ +17% |
| molina oh medicare advantage | all plans | $3.64 | ↑ +21% |
| highmark pa medicare advantage | hmo | $3.64 | ↑ +21% |
| peak health medicare advantage | all plans | $3.64 | ↑ +21% |
| united mine workers of america medicare advantage | united mine workers of america medicare advantage | $3.64 | ↑ +21% |
| highmark wholecare pa medicare advantage | all pla | $3.75 | ↑ +25% |
| highmark wv medicare advantage | all plans | $3.79 | ↑ +26% |
| buckeye oh medicare advantage | all plans | $3.82 | ↑ +27% |
| aetna medicare advantage | all plans | $3.82 | ↑ +27% |
| upmc for life medicare advantage | all plans | $3.82 | ↑ +27% |
| humana medicare advantage | all plans | $3.82 | ↑ +27% |
| pa health & wellness medicare advantage | all plan | $3.82 | ↑ +27% |
| valor health medicare advantage | all plans | $3.86 | ↑ +29% |
| the health plan wv medicare advantage | all plans | $3.86 | ↑ +29% |
| wv senior advantage | isnp | $3.86 | ↑ +29% |
| geisinger pa medicare advantage | all plans | $3.86 | ↑ +29% |
| unitedhealthcare medicare advantage | all plans | $3.97 | ↑ +32% |
| the health plan wv | peia | $4.08 | ↑ +36% |
| alliance coal | alliance coal | $4.55 | ↑ +52% |
| buckeye commercial | exchange plan | $5.46 | ↑ +82% |
| encova | worker's compensation | $5.46 | ↑ +82% |
| caresource oh exchange | caresource oh exchange | $5.46 | ↑ +82% |
| rockport healthcare group | worker's compensation | $5.64 | ↑ +88% |
| coventry health care | worker's compensation | $5.75 | ↑ +92% |
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Volume measurement urine timed at other West-virginia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Reynolds Memorial Hospital | Glen Dale | $25.00 | $2.37 – $5.75 |
| Braxton County Memorial Hospital | Gassaway | $2.00 | not published |
| United Hospital Center | Bridgeport | $26.50 | $3.44 – $5.75 |
| Wetzel County Hospital | New Martinsville | $24.50 | $3.44 – $5.75 |
| Camden Clark Medical Center | Parkersburg | $26.50 | $3.44 – $5.75 |
| Weirton Medical Center | Weirton | $19.00 | $3.44 – $18.53 |