Alpha-fetoprotein tumor marker at Atrium Health Cabarrus

920 Church St N, Concord, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1487866315

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Dec 1, 2025 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$132.53

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.

$265.05

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.

$17.11 with Humana vs $251.80 with Multiplan — 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 $17.11 ↓ -87%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $17.36 ↓ -87%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $17.61 ↓ -87%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $17.66 ↓ -87%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $20.69 ↓ -84%
Partners Managed Medicaid $20.69 ↓ -84%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $20.90 ↓ -84%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $20.90 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $20.90 ↓ -84%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $20.90 ↓ -84%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $20.90 ↓ -84%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $20.90 ↓ -84%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $20.96 ↓ -84%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $21.10 ↓ -84%
Alliance Behavioral Health $32.84 ↓ -75%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $70.24 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $72.04 ↓ -46%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $72.31 ↓ -45%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $77.00 ↓ -42%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $95.13 ↓ -28%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $96.21 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $106.55 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $107.88 ↓ -19%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $110.00 ↓ -17%
Cigna Commercial NB $114.77 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $117.15 ↓ -12%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $117.42 ↓ -11%
Aetna Broad Network $121.39 ↓ -8%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $132.53 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $137.30 ↑ +4%
MedCost Ultra $142.60 ↑ +8%
Magellan Behavioral Health $159.03 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $161.68 ↑ +22%
Quik Trip Commercial $172.28 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $172.28 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $178.91 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $190.84 ↑ +44%
MedCost PPO $198.79 ↑ +50%
Healthgram Commercial $212.04 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $212.04 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $212.04 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $212.04 ↑ +60%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $217.34 ↑ +64%
ChoiceCare Commercial $217.34 ↑ +64%
First Health Commercial $225.29 ↑ +70%
Beechstreet Commercial $238.55 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $251.80 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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