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Chest X-ray (single view) 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

$186.83

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.

$373.65

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.

$7.67 with Trillium vs $354.97 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
Trillium Managed Medicaid $7.67 ↓ -96%
Partners Managed Medicaid $7.67 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $7.75 ↓ -96%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $7.75 ↓ -96%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $7.75 ↓ -96%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $7.75 ↓ -96%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $7.75 ↓ -96%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $7.75 ↓ -96%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $7.82 ↓ -96%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $8.13 ↓ -96%
Humana Medicare Advantage $8.29 ↓ -96%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $8.41 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $8.44 ↓ -95%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $10.16 ↓ -95%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $20.48 ↓ -89%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $25.79 ↓ -86%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $26.95 ↓ -86%
Aetna Broad Network $35.29 ↓ -81%
ChoiceCare Commercial $40.99 ↓ -78%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $40.99 ↓ -78%
Alliance Behavioral Health $46.30 ↓ -75%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $99.02 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $108.55 ↓ -42%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $135.63 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $150.21 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $152.08 ↓ -19%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $155.06 ↓ -17%
Cigna Commercial NB $161.79 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $165.15 ↓ -12%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $186.83 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $193.55 ↑ +4%
MedCost Ultra $201.02 ↑ +8%
Magellan Behavioral Health $224.19 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $227.93 ↑ +22%
Quik Trip Commercial $242.87 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $242.87 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $252.21 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $269.03 ↑ +44%
MedCost PPO $280.24 ↑ +50%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $298.92 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $298.92 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $298.92 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $298.92 ↑ +60%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $306.39 ↑ +64%
First Health Commercial $317.60 ↑ +70%
Beechstreet Commercial $336.29 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $354.97 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Chest X-ray (single view) at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $186.83 $7.67 – $354.97
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $186.83 $7.75 – $328.81
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $186.83 $7.67 – $354.97
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $186.83 $7.67 – $354.97
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $186.83 $7.67 – $343.76
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $186.83 $7.67 – $343.76
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $186.83 $7.67 – $358.70
Atrium Health Union Monroe $186.83 $7.67 – $354.97

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