X-ray thoracolumbar spine including skull cervical & sacral spine 2-3 views 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

$409.40

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.

$818.80

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.

$13.75 with Trillium vs $777.86 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 $13.75 ↓ -97%
Partners Managed Medicaid $13.75 ↓ -97%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $13.89 ↓ -97%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $13.89 ↓ -97%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $13.89 ↓ -97%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $13.89 ↓ -97%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $13.89 ↓ -97%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $13.89 ↓ -97%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $14.03 ↓ -97%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $14.05 ↓ -97%
Humana Medicare Advantage $14.33 ↓ -96%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $14.54 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $14.58 ↓ -96%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $17.56 ↓ -96%
Alliance Behavioral Health $101.45 ↓ -75%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $116.03 ↓ -72%
Aetna Broad Network $147.10 ↓ -64%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $153.10 ↓ -63%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $216.98 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $222.55 ↓ -46%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $223.37 ↓ -45%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $237.86 ↓ -42%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $297.22 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $329.16 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $333.25 ↓ -19%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $339.80 ↓ -17%
Cigna Commercial NB $354.54 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $361.91 ↓ -12%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $409.40 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $424.14 ↑ +4%
MedCost Ultra $440.51 ↑ +8%
Magellan Behavioral Health $491.28 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $499.47 ↑ +22%
Quik Trip Commercial $532.22 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $532.22 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $552.69 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $589.54 ↑ +44%
MedCost PPO $614.10 ↑ +50%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $655.04 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $655.04 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $655.04 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $655.04 ↑ +60%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $671.42 ↑ +64%
ChoiceCare Commercial $671.42 ↑ +64%
First Health Commercial $695.98 ↑ +70%
Beechstreet Commercial $736.92 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $777.86 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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X-ray thoracolumbar spine including skull cervical & sacral spine 2-3 views at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $409.40 $13.75 – $777.86
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $409.40 $13.89 – $720.54
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $409.40 $13.75 – $777.86
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $409.40 $13.75 – $777.86
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $409.40 $13.75 – $753.30
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $409.40 $13.75 – $753.30
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $409.40 $13.75 – $786.05
Atrium Health Union Monroe $409.40 $13.75 – $777.86

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