Potassium hydroxide preps 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

$83.33

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.

$166.65

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.

$5.35 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina vs $158.32 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
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $5.35 ↓ -94%
Partners Managed Medicaid $5.47 ↓ -93%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $5.47 ↓ -93%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $5.52 ↓ -93%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $5.52 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $5.52 ↓ -93%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $5.52 ↓ -93%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $5.52 ↓ -93%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $5.52 ↓ -93%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $5.58 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $5.82 ↓ -93%
Humana Medicare Advantage $5.95 ↓ -93%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $6.03 ↓ -93%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $6.12 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $6.14 ↓ -93%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $7.05 ↓ -92%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $7.29 ↓ -91%
Aetna Broad Network $9.39 ↓ -89%
Alliance Behavioral Health $20.65 ↓ -75%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $44.16 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $45.30 ↓ -46%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $48.41 ↓ -42%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $60.49 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $66.99 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $67.83 ↓ -19%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $69.16 ↓ -17%
Cigna Commercial NB $72.16 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $73.66 ↓ -12%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $83.33 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $86.32 ↑ +4%
MedCost Ultra $89.66 ↑ +8%
Magellan Behavioral Health $99.99 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $101.66 ↑ +22%
Quik Trip Commercial $108.32 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $108.32 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $112.49 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $119.99 ↑ +44%
MedCost PPO $124.99 ↑ +50%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $133.32 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $133.32 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $133.32 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $133.32 ↑ +60%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $136.65 ↑ +64%
ChoiceCare Commercial $136.65 ↑ +64%
First Health Commercial $141.65 ↑ +70%
Beechstreet Commercial $149.99 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $158.32 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Potassium hydroxide preps at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $83.33 $5.35 – $158.32
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $83.33 $5.52 – $146.65
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $83.33 $5.35 – $158.32
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $83.33 $5.35 – $158.32
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $83.33 $5.35 – $153.32
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $83.33 $5.35 – $153.32
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $83.33 $5.47 – $159.98
Atrium Health Union Monroe $83.33 $5.35 – $158.32

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