Culture aerobic additional method definitive id each at Atrium Health Stanly

301 Yadkin St, Albermarle, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1073988994

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Dec 1, 2025 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$61.03

Cash price

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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.

$122.05

Gross charge

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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.

$8.24 with Humana vs $117.17 with Beechstreet — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Humana Medicare Advantage $8.24 ↓ -86%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $8.36 ↓ -86%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $8.48 ↓ -86%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $8.51 ↓ -86%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $9.96 ↓ -84%
Partners Managed Medicaid $10.06 ↓ -84%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $10.06 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $10.06 ↓ -84%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $10.06 ↓ -84%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $10.06 ↓ -84%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $10.06 ↓ -84%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $10.06 ↓ -84%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $10.16 ↓ -83%
Alliance Behavioral Health $14.66 ↓ -76%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $32.34 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $37.34 ↓ -39%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $45.40 ↓ -26%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $47.79 ↓ -22%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $49.06 ↓ -20%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $52.55 ↓ -14%
Cigna Commercial NB $52.85 ↓ -13%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus $56.75 ↓ -7%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $61.03 ↑ +0%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $62.88 ↑ +3%
Aetna Broad Network $63.95 ↑ +5%
Employers Health Network Commercial $64.69 ↑ +6%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $65.42 ↑ +7%
Magellan Behavioral Health $73.23 ↑ +20%
MedCost Ultra $77.75 ↑ +27%
GMMI Commercial $79.33 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $79.33 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $82.38 ↑ +35%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $82.63 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Commercial $87.88 ↑ +44%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $94.59 ↑ +55%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $97.64 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $97.64 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $109.85 ↑ +80%
Healthgram Commercial $109.85 ↑ +80%
Aetna First Health Commercial $109.85 ↑ +80%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $114.73 ↑ +88%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $114.73 ↑ +88%
Multiplan Commercial $114.73 ↑ +88%
ChoiceCare Commercial $114.73 ↑ +88%
MedCost PPO $117.17 ↑ +92%
Beechstreet Commercial $117.17 ↑ +92%
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital

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Culture aerobic additional method definitive id each at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $61.03 $8.24 – $115.95
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $61.03 $10.06 – $107.40
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $61.03 $8.24 – $115.95
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $61.03 $8.24 – $115.95
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $61.03 $8.24 – $115.95
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $61.03 $8.24 – $112.29
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $61.03 $8.24 – $112.29
Atrium Health Union Monroe $61.03 $8.24 – $115.95

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