Melphalan oral 2 mg 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

$1,052.00

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.

$2,104.00

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.

$238.47 with Amerihealth Caritas vs $1,846.33 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 $238.47 ↓ -77%
Alliance Behavioral Health $240.80 ↓ -77%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $242.94 ↓ -77%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $242.94 ↓ -77%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $242.94 ↓ -77%
Partners Managed Medicaid $244.88 ↓ -77%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $245.46 ↓ -77%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $247.41 ↓ -76%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $247.80 ↓ -76%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $250.32 ↓ -76%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $515.03 ↓ -51%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $564.59 ↓ -46%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $576.64 ↓ -45%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $576.64 ↓ -45%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $576.64 ↓ -45%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $705.49 ↓ -33%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $777.40 ↓ -26%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $781.29 ↓ -26%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $791.00 ↓ -25%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $806.55 ↓ -23%
Cigna Commercial NB $841.54 ↓ -20%
Employers Health Network Commercial $859.03 ↓ -18%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $860.97 ↓ -18%
Aetna Broad Network $890.12 ↓ -15%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $971.75 ↓ -8%
MedCost Ultra $1,045.60 ↓ -1%
Magellan Behavioral Health $1,166.10 ↑ +11%
Aetna First Health Commercial $1,185.54 ↑ +13%
Quik Trip Commercial $1,263.28 ↑ +20%
GMMI Commercial $1,263.28 ↑ +20%
Cigna Commercial SAR $1,311.86 ↑ +25%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $1,399.32 ↑ +33%
MedCost PPO $1,457.63 ↑ +39%
Cigna Behavioral Health $1,554.80 ↑ +48%
Healthgram Commercial $1,554.80 ↑ +48%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $1,554.80 ↑ +48%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $1,554.80 ↑ +48%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $1,593.67 ↑ +51%
ChoiceCare Commercial $1,593.67 ↑ +51%
First Health Commercial $1,651.98 ↑ +57%
Beechstreet Commercial $1,749.15 ↑ +66%
Multiplan Commercial $1,846.33 ↑ +76%
Aetna Medicare Advantage not published by hospital —
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage not published by hospital —
Humana Medicare Advantage not published by hospital —
Ortho Carolina Commercial not published by hospital —
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital —
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage not published by hospital —
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital —

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