How Much Does a CT Chest Without Contrast Cost in West Virginia?
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$156Hospital outpatient total2026 Medicare, physician + facilityUnder 2026 Medicare rates, a CT chest without contrast costs up to about $156 in total at a hospital outpatient department, counting both the physician and the facility (national rates). Outside a hospital, at an independent imaging center, lab or office, Medicare's full rate in West Virginia averages $121.
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West Virginia Medicare physician rate (2026)
-8.6% vs nationalSingle statewide locality.
What the whole procedure costs
The office rate above is what an imaging center, lab or office is paid for the whole test. In a hospital, the facility bills its own fee and the physician bills only the reading. These are 2026 national Medicare amounts.
Medicare may pay the facility separately for this code or package it into another service on the same day, so treat the facility share as an upper bound. For a test like this the physician in a hospital bills only the reading (the professional component); outside a hospital one global fee covers the whole test, shown in the office rate above. Medicare allowed amounts are not what an uninsured patient is charged, and not a quote. Private plans typically allow more.
Your ZIP in West Virginia
Run a ZIP lookup for your part of West Virginia, whether Morgantown, Charleston, Huntington, Wheeling, the Eastern Panhandle near Martinsburg, or the southern coalfields.
What CT chest without contrast costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in West Virginia moves the bill more than anything else you control.
Rates for your ZIP, 5 named hospitals with CMS ratings, the add-on codes, and the scheduler script.
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What these numbers are
Every figure on this page is a 2026 Medicare allowed amount: the physician line comes from the Physician Fee Schedule adjusted by geographic practice-cost indices, and the facility totals come from the CMS hospital outpatient (OPPS) and ambulatory surgery center rates. None of them is a hospital chargemaster price, your insurer's contracted rate, or a quote. Anesthesia, pathology, imaging reads and follow-up care are billed under their own codes when they apply, and an inpatient stay is paid a different way again. In West Virginia the office and hospital physician lines for this CPT differ by $72.46.
National vs West Virginia
Where West Virginia ranks for this CPT
CT Chest Without Contrast and how West Virginia is priced
West Virginia is one statewide payment locality with geographic indices among the lowest in the eastern United States, so its published Medicare rates apply identically from the Eastern Panhandle to the southern coalfields. The uniform pricing spans a state whose mountainous terrain makes actual travel to care unusually difficult relative to straight-line distances. CMS's work index floor supports the state's low-cost profile. Morgantown, Charleston, and Huntington all bill against the same geographic factors.
The state's care concentrates around its academic medical centers in Morgantown and Huntington and the capital-region hospitals in Charleston, each serving long mountain catchments. West Virginia's population is among the oldest and highest-need in the country, and hospital finances have been fragile in many counties. Eastern Panhandle residents commonly use Maryland or Virginia providers, and northern residents look to Pittsburgh.
This procedure: A chest CT without contrast takes cross-sectional X-ray images of the lungs and chest in a scan that lasts under a minute on the table, with the whole appointment done in 15 minutes. It sees far more detail than a chest X-ray and is ordered to evaluate lung nodules, unexplained cough, abnormal X-ray findings, or interstitial lung disease. You lie on a table that slides through a doughnut-shaped scanner and hold your breath briefly; no IV is needed for this non-contrast version.
What Is CT Chest Without Contrast?
A chest CT without contrast takes cross-sectional X-ray images of the lungs and chest in a scan that lasts under a minute on the table, with the whole appointment done in 15 minutes. It sees far more detail than a chest X-ray and is ordered to evaluate lung nodules, unexplained cough, abnormal X-ray findings, or interstitial lung disease. You lie on a table that slides through a doughnut-shaped scanner and hold your breath briefly; no IV is needed for this non-contrast version.
What Affects the Cost
- –Freestanding imaging centers routinely price this scan at a fraction of hospital outpatient rates.
- –The radiologist's professional reading fee is billed separately from the scan at many facilities.
- –Lung nodules found on a first scan typically trigger a series of follow-up CTs over one to two years, multiplying the true cost of the finding.
- –Low-dose CT for lung cancer screening is a different code with different, usually free, coverage; make sure the right one is ordered if screening is the goal.
- –Emergency department chest CTs carry ER-level facility charges far above scheduled outpatient pricing.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.Is this being ordered as a diagnostic CT or as low-dose lung cancer screening, and am I eligible for the free screening version?
- 2.Has prior authorization been obtained for the facility where I am scheduled?
- 3.What does this scan cost at a freestanding center versus the hospital?
- 4.If a nodule is found, how many follow-up scans should I budget for?
- 5.Is the radiologist fee included in the price I was quoted?
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CT Chest Without Contrast in West Virginia: questions
Under 2026 Medicare rates, a CT chest without contrast costs up to about $156 in total at a hospital outpatient department, counting both the physician and the facility (national rates). Outside a hospital, at an independent imaging center, lab or office, Medicare's full rate in West Virginia averages $121. West Virginia is a single Medicare locality, so the physician rate is the same statewide.
Not on the physician fee schedule. West Virginia uses one locality, so the Medicare physician rate is the same from one end of the state to the other. What still changes is site of service (office vs hospital) and any facility fee the hospital bills on its own claim.
After the Part B deductible, coinsurance is usually 20% of the allowed amount: about $24 for the office physician line or $10 for the hospital physician line in West Virginia. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
It depends on where the test is done. At an independent imaging center, lab or office, $121.14 is Medicare's full rate in West Virginia, covering the test and the reading. In a hospital outpatient department the physician is paid only for the reading (about $48.68) and the hospital is paid separately, which brings the national total to up to about $156. West Virginia ranks #4 of 51 states on the non-hospital rate (9% below the national office rate of $132.60).