Audit/dast 15-30 min 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

$85.00

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.

$170.00

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.

$20.86 with Amerihealth Caritas vs $161.50 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
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $20.86 ↓ -75%
Alliance Behavioral Health $21.06 ↓ -75%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $21.25 ↓ -75%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $21.25 ↓ -75%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $21.25 ↓ -75%
Partners Managed Medicaid $21.42 ↓ -75%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $21.47 ↓ -75%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $21.64 ↓ -75%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $21.68 ↓ -74%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $21.90 ↓ -74%
Humana Medicare Advantage $32.41 ↓ -62%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $32.88 ↓ -61%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $33.36 ↓ -61%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $33.46 ↓ -61%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $39.71 ↓ -53%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $45.05 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $49.39 ↓ -42%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $54.91 ↓ -35%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $61.71 ↓ -27%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $65.93 ↓ -22%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $66.73 ↓ -21%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $69.19 ↓ -19%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $70.55 ↓ -17%
Aetna Broad Network $73.49 ↓ -14%
Cigna Commercial NB $73.61 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $75.14 ↓ -12%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $75.31 ↓ -11%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $85.00 ↑ +0%
MedCost Ultra $91.46 ↑ +8%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $96.05 ↑ +13%
Magellan Behavioral Health $102.00 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $103.70 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $110.50 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $110.50 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $114.75 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $122.40 ↑ +44%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $122.57 ↑ +44%
MedCost PPO $127.50 ↑ +50%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $136.00 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $136.00 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $136.00 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $136.00 ↑ +60%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $139.40 ↑ +64%
ChoiceCare Commercial $139.40 ↑ +64%
First Health Commercial $144.50 ↑ +70%
Beechstreet Commercial $153.00 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $161.50 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Audit/dast 15-30 min at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $85.00 $25.43 – $161.50
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $85.00 $31.79 – $149.60
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $85.00 $23.80 – $161.50
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $85.00 $19.18 – $161.50
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $85.00 $32.19 – $156.40
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $85.00 $17.00 – $156.40
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $85.00 $20.40 – $163.20
Atrium Health Union Monroe $85.00 $22.10 – $161.50

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