Exploration of knee joint at Atrium Health Stanly
301 Yadkin St, Albermarle, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1073988994
$3,850.53
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.
$7,701.05
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.
$529.44 with Trillium vs $7,393.01 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.
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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| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $529.44 | ↓ -86% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $534.73 | ↓ -86% |
| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $534.73 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $534.73 | ↓ -86% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $534.73 | ↓ -86% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $534.73 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $534.73 | ↓ -86% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $534.73 | ↓ -86% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $540.03 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna Healthspring | Medicare Advantage | $680.22 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $693.82 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $704.03 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $705.97 | ↓ -82% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $924.90 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $2,040.78 | ↓ -47% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $2,355.75 | ↓ -39% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $2,487.44 | ↓ -35% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $2,864.79 | ↓ -26% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $3,334.55 | ↓ -13% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $3,403.86 | ↓ -12% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $3,485.50 | ↓ -9% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus | $3,580.99 | ↓ -7% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $3,850.53 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $4,035.35 | ↑ +5% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $4,127.76 | ↑ +7% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $4,585.98 | ↑ +19% |
| Magellan | Behavioral Health | $4,620.63 | ↑ +20% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $4,905.57 | ↑ +27% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $4,974.88 | ↑ +29% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $5,005.68 | ↑ +30% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $5,005.68 | ↑ +30% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $5,198.21 | ↑ +35% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $5,213.61 | ↑ +35% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Employee Commercial | $5,544.76 | ↑ +44% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $5,968.31 | ↑ +55% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Commercial | $6,160.84 | ↑ +60% |
| Cigna | Behavioral Health | $6,160.84 | ↑ +60% |
| First Health | Commercial | $6,930.95 | ↑ +80% |
| Healthgram | Commercial | $6,930.95 | ↑ +80% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $6,930.95 | ↑ +80% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $7,238.99 | ↑ +88% |
| Lifesynch Community Choice Care | Behavioral Health | $7,238.99 | ↑ +88% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $7,238.99 | ↑ +88% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $7,238.99 | ↑ +88% |
| MedCost | PPO | $7,393.01 | ↑ +92% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $7,393.01 | ↑ +92% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan H | not published by hospital | — |
| Broughton Cardinal Partners | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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Exploration of knee joint at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $3,850.53 | $529.44 – $7,316.00 |
| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $3,850.53 | $534.73 – $6,776.92 |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Concord | $3,850.53 | $529.44 – $7,316.00 |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Shelby | $3,850.53 | $529.44 – $7,316.00 |
| Atrium Health Lincoln | Lincolnton | $3,850.53 | $529.44 – $7,316.00 |
| Atrium Health Mercy | Charlotte | $3,850.53 | $75.38 – $7,084.97 |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | $3,850.53 | $529.44 – $7,084.97 |
| Atrium Health Union | Monroe | $3,850.53 | $529.44 – $7,316.00 |