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West Virginia University Health System

Lung screening gap across 33 counties in Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia

100,000to170,000adults in its service area qualify for lung cancer screening and are not being screened

About 2,000 people here are diagnosed with lung cancer each year, and 65% are found at a late stage, when it is hardest to treat.

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33 counties22 acute care hospitalsService area
120,000 to 200,000adults likely qualify under USPSTF 2021 criteria (estimate)
1,200lung cancer deaths a year in these counties, 2020 to 2024
16.7%of eligible adults screened in these states, vs 18.2% nationally

Estimates from public data only; no patient information. Sources and method below.

Where the eligible adults live

The counties where most of West Virginia University Health System's Medicare inpatients live. Darker areas hold more adults who likely qualify, which is where outreach would start. Hover or tap any area for its estimate.

Adults likely eligible, per neighborhood

0+200+270+340+410+470+540+

Acute care hospital in this system

Counties in the service area

CountyStateAdults likely eligibleLung cancer deaths per 100kMedicare screens billed locally, 2024
Kanawha CountyWest Virginia12,300 to 21,80047.6514
Washington CountyPennsylvania13,600 to 20,30035.2108
Fayette CountyPennsylvania10,200 to 12,70042.0None billed locally
Berkeley CountyWest Virginia7,800 to 12,50048.6331
Wood CountyWest Virginia5,900 to 10,20048.4368
Monongalia CountyWest Virginia3,900 to 9,00026.0518
Raleigh CountyWest Virginia5,400 to 8,60053.568
Harrison CountyWest Virginia4,400 to 7,90053.0None billed locally
Belmont CountyOhio4,500 to 7,50043.0None billed locally
Jefferson CountyOhio4,200 to 7,50051.064
Mercer CountyWest Virginia4,500 to 7,00044.053
Washington CountyOhio3,800 to 6,60043.811
Jefferson CountyWest Virginia3,400 to 6,60045.2None billed locally
Putnam CountyWest Virginia3,400 to 6,40037.1None billed locally
Marion CountyWest Virginia3,500 to 6,40050.016
Ohio CountyWest Virginia2,500 to 5,00046.9458
Preston CountyWest Virginia2,600 to 4,00028.9None billed locally
Marshall CountyWest Virginia2,400 to 4,00046.6None billed locally
Jackson CountyWest Virginia2,000 to 3,40049.5None billed locally
Greene CountyPennsylvania2,500 to 3,40044.5None billed locally
Randolph CountyWest Virginia2,100 to 3,40048.4None billed locally
Mineral CountyWest Virginia1,800 to 3,30026.7None billed locally
Nicholas CountyWest Virginia2,000 to 3,20043.0None billed locally
Upshur CountyWest Virginia1,800 to 2,80038.2None billed locally
Garrett CountyMaryland1,700 to 2,50026.7None billed locally
Wetzel CountyWest Virginia1,100 to 1,90057.7None billed locally
Barbour CountyWest Virginia1,200 to 1,90043.1None billed locally
Lewis CountyWest Virginia1,300 to 1,90050.0None billed locally
Harrison CountyOhio1,100 to 1,80056.0None billed locally
Braxton CountyWest Virginia1,200 to 1,70043.5None billed locally
Grant CountyWest Virginia860 to 1,50041.0None billed locally
Ritchie CountyWest Virginia780 to 1,30047.8None billed locally
Doddridge CountyWest Virginia590 to 1,10054.0None billed locally

22 of the 33 counties had no Medicare lung screening reads billed from a local address in 2024. County names link to their Missing Millions page.

What closing the gap would mean

If screening in these counties rose from 16.7% to the national rate of 18.2%, about 1,800 to 3,000 more people would be screened each year.

In the National Lung Screening Trial, low-dose CT screening lowered lung cancer deaths by 20% compared with chest X-ray. Today about 65% of lung cancers here are found at a late stage.

Illustrative estimate: eligible adults (range) times the change in screening rate. Not a forecast or a guarantee.

Each year in these counties

2,000new lung cancers
1,300found at a late stage
1,200lung cancer deaths

NCI and CDC State Cancer Profiles, annual averages.

Screening at West Virginia University Health System today

Clinicians at West Virginia University Health System locations billed 1,263 low-dose CT lung screening reads to Medicare fee-for-service in 2024. Including Medicare Advantage and other insurers, we estimate about 2,900 to 7,600 screenings a year.

Most adults who qualify see a primary care clinician every year. We count 1,815 primary care clinicians, 41 pulmonologists and 23 thoracic surgeons practicing at West Virginia University Health System locations. A 20 pack-year smoking history is often missing from structured EHR fields, so many eligible patients are never flagged.

CMS Medicare Physician and Other Practitioners 2024 (CPT 71271); clinicians matched to West Virginia University Health System by practice address using the AHRQ Compendium of U.S. Health Systems 2023, so reads billed by outside radiology groups are not included. The all-payer estimate scales Medicare fee-for-service by the local Medicare Advantage share (57%, CMS) and, at the high end, by the share of eligible adults under 65 (61%).

22 acute care hospitals

  • West Virginia University HospitalsMorgantown, WV
  • Camden-Clark Memorial HospitalParkersburg, WV
  • United Hospital CenterBridgeport, WV
  • Wheeling HospitalWheeling, WV
  • Thomas Memorial HospitalSouth Charleston, WV
  • City Hospital Inc.Martinsburg, WV
  • Uniontown HospitalUniontown, PA
  • Princeton Community HospitalPrinceton, WV
  • Reynolds Memorial HospitalGlen Dale, WV
  • St Francis HospitalCharleston, WV
  • Barnesville HospitalBarnesville, OH
  • Braxton County Memorial HospitalGassaway, WV

And 10 more acute care hospitals.

Find them, reach them, give radiologists a second opinion

LungIQ Find

Reads clinical notes, diagnoses and medications in the EHR and returns a ranked list of patients likely eligible, including those whose pack-year history is missing. Start with a CSV export refreshed every 1, 3 or 6 months, or connect through FHIR or HL7.

LungNAV Reach

An AI patient navigator that texts and calls patients in 70+ languages, answers questions about the scan, and hands each patient to your scheduling team or nurse navigators with a call summary.

LungAI Second opinion

Gives radiologists a malignancy risk score for each nodule, factoring in change since the prior scan, inside the PACS and CADe software they already use. The radiologist makes the final call.

LungAI is an investigational medical device and has not been cleared by FDA. It is not commercially available in the United States.

How we estimate the gap

Modeled estimates from public data. They are not a count of West Virginia University Health System patients and contain no patient information.

  • Service area: CMS Hospital Service Area File 2025 (counties within 120 miles of a system hospital holding 80% of its Medicare inpatients, plus any county with at least 1%); hospitals from the AHRQ Compendium of U.S. Health Systems, 2023.
  • Eligible adults, low estimate: Oatmeal Health Missing Millions (Census 2025 population, CDC PLACES smoking, USPSTF 2021).
  • Eligible adults, high estimate: University of Minnesota National Lung Cancer Screening Estimates (Haynes 2026), which also counts former smokers.
  • Screening rate: American Lung Association, State of Lung Cancer 2025.
  • Lung cancer cases and deaths: NCI and CDC State Cancer Profiles (incidence 2019 to 2023, deaths 2020 to 2024).
  • Screening volume: CMS Medicare Physician and Other Practitioners, 2024; CMS Medicare Advantage State/County Penetration, September 2026.

LungAI is an investigational medical device and has not been cleared by FDA. Oatmeal Health is preparing a 510(k) premarket notification. LungAI is not commercially available in the United States.

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