Ghs fb removal from muscle - complicated 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

$536.13

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.

$1,072.25

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.

$128.67 with Partners vs $1,029.36 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
Partners Managed Medicaid $128.67 ↓ -76%
Alliance Behavioral Health $128.78 ↓ -76%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $129.85 ↓ -76%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $129.85 ↓ -76%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $129.85 ↓ -76%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $131.14 ↓ -76%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $131.14 ↓ -76%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $132.42 ↓ -75%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $133.71 ↓ -75%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $183.50 ↓ -66%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $229.43 ↓ -57%
Humana Medicare Advantage $234.02 ↓ -56%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $237.46 ↓ -56%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $238.11 ↓ -56%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $284.15 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $328.00 ↓ -39%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $346.34 ↓ -35%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $398.88 ↓ -26%
Cigna Commercial NB $464.28 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $473.93 ↓ -12%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $485.30 ↓ -9%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus $498.60 ↓ -7%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $536.13 ↑ +0%
Aetna Broad Network $561.86 ↑ +5%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $574.73 ↑ +7%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $638.52 ↑ +19%
Magellan Behavioral Health $643.35 ↑ +20%
MedCost Ultra $683.02 ↑ +27%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $692.67 ↑ +29%
GMMI Commercial $696.96 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $696.96 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $723.77 ↑ +35%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $725.91 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Commercial $772.02 ↑ +44%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $830.99 ↑ +55%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $857.80 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $857.80 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $965.03 ↑ +80%
Healthgram Commercial $965.03 ↑ +80%
Aetna First Health Commercial $965.03 ↑ +80%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $1,007.92 ↑ +88%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $1,007.92 ↑ +88%
ChoiceCare Commercial $1,007.92 ↑ +88%
Multiplan Commercial $1,007.92 ↑ +88%
MedCost PPO $1,029.36 ↑ +92%
Beechstreet Commercial $1,029.36 ↑ +92%
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital

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Ghs fb removal from muscle - complicated at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $536.13 $160.41 – $1,018.64
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $536.13 $183.50 – $943.58
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $536.13 $131.57 – $1,018.64
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $536.13 $150.12 – $1,018.64
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $536.13 $120.95 – $1,018.64
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $536.13 $75.38 – $986.47
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $536.13 $107.23 – $986.47
Atrium Health Union Monroe $536.13 $139.39 – $1,018.64

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