X-ray spine single view at Atrium Health Cabarrus
920 Church St N, Concord, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1487866315
$218.83
Cash price 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.
$437.65
Gross charge 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.
$6.41 with Trillium vs $415.77 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.
Full explanation →
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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.
Full explanation →Payer ?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. Full explanation → |
Plan ?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. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $6.41 | ↓ -97% |
| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $6.41 | ↓ -97% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $6.47 | ↓ -97% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $6.47 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $6.47 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $6.47 | ↓ -97% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $6.47 | ↓ -97% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $6.47 | ↓ -97% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $6.54 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna Healthspring | Medicare Advantage | $7.19 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $7.33 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $7.44 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $7.46 | ↓ -97% |
| Ortho Carolina | Commercial | $8.99 | ↓ -96% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $54.22 | ↓ -75% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $60.02 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $115.98 | ↓ -47% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $118.95 | ↓ -46% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $119.39 | ↓ -45% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $127.14 | ↓ -42% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $158.87 | ↓ -27% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $175.94 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial | $178.12 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $181.62 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $189.50 | ↓ -13% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $193.44 | ↓ -12% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $193.88 | ↓ -11% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $200.44 | ↓ -8% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $218.83 | ↑ +0% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $226.70 | ↑ +4% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $235.46 | ↑ +8% |
| Magellan | Behavioral Health | $262.59 | ↑ +20% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $266.97 | ↑ +22% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $284.47 | ↑ +30% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $284.47 | ↑ +30% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $295.41 | ↑ +35% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Employee Plan | $315.11 | ↑ +44% |
| MedCost | PPO | $328.24 | ↑ +50% |
| Healthgram | Commercial | $350.12 | ↑ +60% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $350.12 | ↑ +60% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Commercial | $350.12 | ↑ +60% |
| Cigna | Behavioral Health | $350.12 | ↑ +60% |
| Lifesynch Community Choice Care | Behavioral Health | $358.87 | ↑ +64% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $358.87 | ↑ +64% |
| First Health | Commercial | $372.00 | ↑ +70% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $393.89 | ↑ +80% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $415.77 | ↑ +90% |
| Broughton Cardinal Partners | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan H | not published by hospital | — |
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X-ray spine single view at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $218.83 | $6.41 – $415.77 |
| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $218.83 | $6.47 – $385.13 |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Shelby | $218.83 | $6.41 – $415.77 |
| Atrium Health Lincoln | Lincolnton | $218.83 | $6.41 – $415.77 |
| Atrium Health Mercy | Charlotte | $218.83 | $6.41 – $402.64 |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | $218.83 | $6.41 – $402.64 |
| Atrium Health Stanly | Albermarle | $218.83 | $6.41 – $420.14 |
| Atrium Health Union | Monroe | $218.83 | $6.41 – $415.77 |