Blood typing patient serum at Weirton Medical Center
601 Colliers Way, Weirton, WV · Wvumedicine · · NPI 1922009505
$257.50
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.
$515.00
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.
$13.13 with amerihealth caritas pa vs $286.58 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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| amerihealth caritas pa | medicaid | $13.13 | ↓ -95% |
| upmc for kids | chip | $13.13 | ↓ -95% |
| pennsylvania health & wellness | medicaid | $14.44 | ↓ -94% |
| upmc for you medicaid | upmc for you medicaid | $14.44 | ↓ -94% |
| aetna better health pa | chip | $14.44 | ↓ -94% |
| wellpoint west virginia | mgd | $15.45 | ↓ -94% |
| highmark health options | chip | $15.45 | ↓ -94% |
| highmark health options west va | mgd mcaid | $15.45 | ↓ -94% |
| wellpoint wv | chip | $15.45 | ↓ -94% |
| the health plan wv | mgd mcaid | $15.67 | ↓ -94% |
| aetna | better health mgd medicaid | $15.74 | ↓ -94% |
| aetna better health wv | chip | $15.74 | ↓ -94% |
| the health plan wv | chip | $15.74 | ↓ -94% |
| highmark wholecare pennsylvania medicaid | highmark wholecare pennsylvania medicaid | $16.18 | ↓ -94% |
| health partners | managed medicaid | $16.54 | ↓ -94% |
| anthem medicare advantage ppo | anthem medicare advantage ppo | $56.31 | ↓ -78% |
| united mine workers of america medicare advantage | united mine workers of america medicare advantage | $56.31 | ↓ -78% |
| caresource oh medicare advantage | all plans | $56.31 | ↓ -78% |
| molina oh medicare advantage | all plans | $56.31 | ↓ -78% |
| peak health medicare advantage | all plans | $56.31 | ↓ -78% |
| upmc for life medicare advantage | all plans | $56.31 | ↓ -78% |
| anthem ohio | managed medicaid | $58.00 | ↓ -77% |
| anthem oh medicare advantage | hmo | $58.00 | ↓ -77% |
| highmark wv medicare advantage | all plans | $58.56 | ↓ -77% |
| pa health & wellness medicare advantage | all plan | $59.13 | ↓ -77% |
| aetna medicare advantage | all plans | $59.13 | ↓ -77% |
| humana medicare advantage | all plans | $59.13 | ↓ -77% |
| senior life medicare advantage | all plans | $59.13 | ↓ -77% |
| buckeye oh medicare advantage | all plans | $59.13 | ↓ -77% |
| geisinger pa medicare advantage | all plans | $59.69 | ↓ -77% |
| valor health medicare advantage | all plans | $59.69 | ↓ -77% |
| the health plan wv medicare advantage | all plans | $59.69 | ↓ -77% |
| wv senior advantage | isnp | $59.69 | ↓ -77% |
| amerihealth caritas pa medicare advantage | amerihealth caritas pa medicare advantage | $60.81 | ↓ -76% |
| unitedhealthcare medicare advantage | all plans | $61.38 | ↓ -76% |
| alliance coal | alliance coal | $70.39 | ↓ -73% |
| buckeye commercial | exchange plan | $84.46 | ↓ -67% |
| coventry health care | worker's compensation | $88.97 | ↓ -65% |
| caresource oh exchange | caresource oh exchange | $92.91 | ↓ -64% |
| blue cross blue shield traditional | blue cross blue shield traditional | $286.58 | ↑ +11% |
| blue cross blue shield ppo | blue cross blue shield ppo | $286.58 | ↑ +11% |
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Blood typing patient serum at other West-virginia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| United Hospital Center | Bridgeport | $60.50 | $15.45 – $96.08 |
| Wetzel County Hospital | New Martinsville | $65.00 | $14.44 – $95.29 |
| Camden Clark Medical Center | Parkersburg | $60.50 | $15.45 – $88.97 |
| St. Joseph's Hospital | Buckhannon | $246.00 | not published |
| Thomas Hospitals | South Charleston | $286.50 | $15.45 – $284.98 |