Ablation of upper extremity nerves rf at Atrium Health Lincoln
433 McAlister Rd, Lincolnton, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1730055054
$10,363.70
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.
$20,727.40
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.
$67.17 with Amerihealth Caritas vs $565.73 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 |
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| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $67.17 | ↓ -99% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $67.83 | ↓ -99% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $68.42 | ↓ -99% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $68.42 | ↓ -99% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $68.42 | ↓ -99% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $69.08 | ↓ -99% |
| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $69.08 | ↓ -99% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $69.79 | ↓ -99% |
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $70.45 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $99.03 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $157.81 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $170.73 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $179.96 | ↓ -98% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $194.79 | ↓ -98% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $221.53 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $224.68 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $239.39 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $242.96 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $257.85 | ↓ -98% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $263.21 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus | $276.91 | ↓ -97% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $280.48 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $282.47 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $286.62 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna Healthspring | Medicare Advantage | $290.78 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $291.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $297.75 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $312.04 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $319.19 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $339.44 | ↓ -97% |
| OrthoCarolina | Commercial | $346.16 | ↓ -97% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $387.08 | ↓ -96% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $387.08 | ↓ -96% |
| MedCost | PPO | $389.46 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $401.96 | ↓ -96% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $488.31 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $506.18 | ↓ -95% |
| First Health | Commercial | $506.18 | ↓ -95% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $535.95 | ↓ -95% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $535.95 | ↓ -95% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $565.73 | ↓ -95% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan H | not published by hospital | — |
| Broughton Cardinal Partners | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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Ablation of upper extremity nerves rf at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sentara Albemarle Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth City | $421.50 | $293.39 – $299.26 |
| AdventHealth Polk | Columbus | $912.24 | not published |
| Adventhealth Hendersonville | Hendersonville | not published | $293.39 – $732.60 |