Lithium therapeutic drug level 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

$70.58

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.

$141.15

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.

$6.74 with Humana vs $134.09 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 $6.74 ↓ -90%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $6.84 ↓ -90%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $6.94 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $6.96 ↓ -90%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $8.16 ↓ -88%
Partners Managed Medicaid $8.16 ↓ -88%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $8.24 ↓ -88%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $8.24 ↓ -88%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $8.24 ↓ -88%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $8.24 ↓ -88%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $8.24 ↓ -88%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $8.24 ↓ -88%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $8.26 ↓ -88%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $8.32 ↓ -88%
Alliance Behavioral Health $17.49 ↓ -75%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $37.40 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $38.36 ↓ -46%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $38.51 ↓ -45%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $41.00 ↓ -42%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $50.66 ↓ -28%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $51.24 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $56.74 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $57.45 ↓ -19%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $58.58 ↓ -17%
Cigna Commercial NB $61.12 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $62.39 ↓ -12%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $62.53 ↓ -11%
Aetna Broad Network $64.65 ↓ -8%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $70.58 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $73.12 ↑ +4%
MedCost Ultra $75.94 ↑ +8%
Magellan Behavioral Health $84.69 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $86.10 ↑ +22%
Quik Trip Commercial $91.75 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $91.75 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $95.28 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $101.63 ↑ +44%
MedCost PPO $105.86 ↑ +50%
Healthgram Commercial $112.92 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $112.92 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $112.92 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $112.92 ↑ +60%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $115.74 ↑ +64%
ChoiceCare Commercial $115.74 ↑ +64%
First Health Commercial $119.98 ↑ +70%
Beechstreet Commercial $127.04 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $134.09 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Lithium therapeutic drug level at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $70.58 $6.74 – $134.09
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $70.58 $8.16 – $124.21
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $70.58 $6.74 – $134.09
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $70.58 $6.74 – $134.09
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $70.58 $6.74 – $129.86
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $70.58 $6.74 – $129.86
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $70.58 $6.74 – $135.50
Atrium Health Union Monroe $70.58 $6.74 – $134.09

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