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Head CT scan (with contrast) at Atrium Health Stanly
301 Yadkin St, Albermarle, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1073988994
$1,520.45
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.
$3,040.90
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.
$46.89 with Trillium vs $2,919.26 with MedCost — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $46.89 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $47.36 | ↓ -97% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $47.36 | ↓ -97% |
| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $47.36 | ↓ -97% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $47.36 | ↓ -97% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $47.36 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $47.36 | ↓ -97% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $47.36 | ↓ -97% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $47.83 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna Healthspring | Medicare Advantage | $49.91 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $50.91 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $51.66 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $51.80 | ↓ -97% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $365.21 | ↓ -76% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $472.86 | ↓ -69% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $620.65 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $805.84 | ↓ -47% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $816.48 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus | $906.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $930.21 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $1,020.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $1,131.21 | ↓ -26% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $1,222.44 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $1,316.71 | ↓ -13% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $1,344.08 | ↓ -12% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $1,520.45 | ↑ +0% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $1,629.92 | ↑ +7% |
| Magellan | Behavioral Health | $1,824.54 | ↑ +20% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $1,937.05 | ↑ +27% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $1,976.59 | ↑ +30% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $1,976.59 | ↑ +30% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $2,052.61 | ↑ +35% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $2,058.69 | ↑ +35% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Employee Commercial | $2,189.45 | ↑ +44% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $2,356.70 | ↑ +55% |
| Cigna | Behavioral Health | $2,432.72 | ↑ +60% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Commercial | $2,432.72 | ↑ +60% |
| First Health | Commercial | $2,736.81 | ↑ +80% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $2,736.81 | ↑ +80% |
| Healthgram | Commercial | $2,736.81 | ↑ +80% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $2,858.45 | ↑ +88% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $2,858.45 | ↑ +88% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $2,858.45 | ↑ +88% |
| Lifesynch Community Choice Care | Behavioral Health | $2,858.45 | ↑ +88% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $2,919.26 | ↑ +92% |
| MedCost | PPO | $2,919.26 | ↑ +92% |
| Broughton Cardinal Partners | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan H | not published by hospital | — |
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Head CT scan (with contrast) at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $1,520.45 | $46.89 – $2,888.86 |
| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $1,520.45 | $47.36 – $2,675.99 |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Shelby | $1,520.45 | $46.89 – $2,888.86 |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Concord | $1,520.45 | $46.89 – $2,888.86 |
| Atrium Health Lincoln | Lincolnton | $1,520.45 | $46.89 – $2,888.86 |
| Atrium Health Mercy | Charlotte | $1,520.45 | $46.89 – $2,797.63 |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | $1,520.45 | $46.89 – $2,797.63 |
| Atrium Health Union | Monroe | $1,520.45 | $46.89 – $2,888.86 |