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Thyroid (TSH) Test 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

$186.98

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.

$373.95

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.

$17.14 with Humana vs $358.99 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.

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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 $17.14 ↓ -91%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $17.39 ↓ -91%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $17.64 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $17.69 ↓ -91%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $20.10 ↓ -89%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $20.30 ↓ -89%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $20.30 ↓ -89%
Partners Managed Medicaid $20.30 ↓ -89%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $20.30 ↓ -89%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $20.30 ↓ -89%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $20.30 ↓ -89%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $20.30 ↓ -89%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $20.50 ↓ -89%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $20.58 ↓ -89%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $20.58 ↓ -89%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $20.58 ↓ -89%
ChoiceCare Commercial $21.61 ↓ -88%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $22.23 ↓ -88%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus $28.24 ↓ -85%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $28.67 ↓ -85%
Aetna Broad Network $31.25 ↓ -83%
Alliance Behavioral Health $44.91 ↓ -76%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $99.10 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $114.39 ↓ -39%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $150.33 ↓ -20%
Cigna Commercial NB $161.92 ↓ -13%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $186.98 ↑ +0%
Employers Health Network Commercial $198.19 ↑ +6%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $200.44 ↑ +7%
Magellan Behavioral Health $224.37 ↑ +20%
MedCost Ultra $238.21 ↑ +27%
Quik Trip Commercial $243.07 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $243.07 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $252.42 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Commercial $269.24 ↑ +44%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $289.81 ↑ +55%
Cigna Behavioral Health $299.16 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $299.16 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $336.56 ↑ +80%
Aetna First Health Commercial $336.56 ↑ +80%
Healthgram Commercial $336.56 ↑ +80%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $351.51 ↑ +88%
Multiplan Commercial $351.51 ↑ +88%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $351.51 ↑ +88%
Beechstreet Commercial $358.99 ↑ +92%
MedCost PPO $358.99 ↑ +92%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
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