Surgical pathology level 6 gross & microscopic examination at Weirton Medical Center
601 Colliers Way, Weirton, WV · Wvumedicine · · NPI 1922009505
$1,629.50
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.
$3,259.00
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.
$17.50 with upmc for kids vs $3,914.05 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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| upmc for kids | chip | $17.50 | ↓ -99% |
| amerihealth caritas pa | medicaid | $17.50 | ↓ -99% |
| upmc for you medicaid | upmc for you medicaid | $19.25 | ↓ -99% |
| pennsylvania health & wellness | medicaid | $19.25 | ↓ -99% |
| aetna better health pa | chip | $19.25 | ↓ -99% |
| health partners | managed medicaid | $22.05 | ↓ -99% |
| anthem medicare advantage ppo | anthem medicare advantage ppo | $769.06 | ↓ -53% |
| molina oh medicare advantage | all plans | $769.06 | ↓ -53% |
| upmc for life medicare advantage | all plans | $769.06 | ↓ -53% |
| caresource oh medicare advantage | all plans | $769.06 | ↓ -53% |
| peak health medicare advantage | all plans | $769.06 | ↓ -53% |
| united mine workers of america medicare advantage | united mine workers of america medicare advantage | $769.06 | ↓ -53% |
| anthem oh medicare advantage | hmo | $792.13 | ↓ -51% |
| anthem ohio | managed medicaid | $792.13 | ↓ -51% |
| highmark wv medicare advantage | all plans | $799.82 | ↓ -51% |
| aetna medicare advantage | all plans | $807.51 | ↓ -50% |
| humana medicare advantage | all plans | $807.51 | ↓ -50% |
| pa health & wellness medicare advantage | all plan | $807.51 | ↓ -50% |
| senior life medicare advantage | all plans | $807.51 | ↓ -50% |
| buckeye oh medicare advantage | all plans | $807.51 | ↓ -50% |
| geisinger pa medicare advantage | all plans | $815.20 | ↓ -50% |
| valor health medicare advantage | all plans | $815.20 | ↓ -50% |
| the health plan wv medicare advantage | all plans | $815.20 | ↓ -50% |
| wv senior advantage | isnp | $815.20 | ↓ -50% |
| amerihealth caritas pa medicare advantage | amerihealth caritas pa medicare advantage | $830.58 | ↓ -49% |
| unitedhealthcare medicare advantage | all plans | $838.28 | ↓ -49% |
| alliance coal | alliance coal | $961.32 | ↓ -41% |
| buckeye commercial | exchange plan | $1,153.59 | ↓ -29% |
| coventry health care | worker's compensation | $1,215.11 | ↓ -25% |
| caresource oh exchange | caresource oh exchange | $1,268.95 | ↓ -22% |
| blue cross blue shield traditional | blue cross blue shield traditional | $3,914.05 | ↑ +140% |
| blue cross blue shield ppo | blue cross blue shield ppo | $3,914.05 | ↑ +140% |
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Surgical pathology level 6 gross & microscopic examination at other West-virginia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Jefferson Medical Center | Ranson | $303.00 | not published |
| West Virginia University Hospitals | Morgantown | $655.00 | $17.50 – $3,285.41 |
| Grant Memorial Hospital | Petersburg | $290.40 | not published |
| Reynolds Memorial Hospital | Glen Dale | $328.50 | $18.38 – $1,215.11 |
| Summersville Regional Medical Center | Summersville | $650.50 | not published |
| Berkeley Medical Center | Martinsburg | $318.50 | $18.73 – $1,225.13 |
| Braxton County Memorial Hospital | Gassaway | $412.00 | not published |
| United Hospital Center | Bridgeport | $1,078.00 | $830.56 – $1,312.28 |