Culture screening strep group a 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

$76.78

Cash price

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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.

$153.55

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.

$6.76 with Humana vs $147.41 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 $6.76 ↓ -91%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $6.86 ↓ -91%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $6.96 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $6.98 ↓ -91%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $7.11 ↓ -91%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $7.18 ↓ -91%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $7.18 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $7.18 ↓ -91%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $7.18 ↓ -91%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $7.18 ↓ -91%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $7.18 ↓ -91%
Partners Managed Medicaid $7.18 ↓ -91%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $7.25 ↓ -91%
ChoiceCare Commercial $7.27 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $7.87 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $7.87 ↓ -90%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $9.05 ↓ -88%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $9.05 ↓ -88%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $9.05 ↓ -88%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus $11.14 ↓ -85%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $11.31 ↓ -85%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $12.29 ↓ -84%
Aetna Broad Network $12.33 ↓ -84%
MedCost Ultra $14.87 ↓ -81%
MedCost PPO $14.87 ↓ -81%
Alliance Behavioral Health $18.44 ↓ -76%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $40.69 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $46.97 ↓ -39%
Cigna Commercial NB $66.49 ↓ -13%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $76.78 ↑ +0%
Employers Health Network Commercial $81.38 ↑ +6%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $82.30 ↑ +7%
Magellan Behavioral Health $92.13 ↑ +20%
GMMI Commercial $99.81 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $99.81 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $103.65 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Commercial $110.56 ↑ +44%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $122.84 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $122.84 ↑ +60%
Aetna First Health Commercial $138.20 ↑ +80%
First Health Commercial $138.20 ↑ +80%
Healthgram Commercial $138.20 ↑ +80%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $144.34 ↑ +88%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $144.34 ↑ +88%
Multiplan Commercial $144.34 ↑ +88%
Beechstreet Commercial $147.41 ↑ +92%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Culture screening strep group a at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $76.78 $6.76 – $145.87
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $76.78 $7.18 – $135.12
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $76.78 $6.76 – $145.87
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $76.78 $6.76 – $145.87
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $76.78 $6.76 – $145.87
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $76.78 $6.76 – $141.27
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $76.78 $6.76 – $141.27
Atrium Health Union Monroe $76.78 $6.76 – $145.87

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