Biopsy(ies) & aspiration(s) bone marrow diagnostic (both sides) at Atrium Health Lincoln

433 McAlister Rd, Lincolnton, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1730055054

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Dec 1, 2025 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$1,628.85

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.

$3,257.70

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.

$65.80 with Trillium vs $3,094.82 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 $65.80 ↓ -96%
Partners Managed Medicaid $66.46 ↓ -96%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $66.46 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $66.46 ↓ -96%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $66.46 ↓ -96%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $66.46 ↓ -96%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $66.46 ↓ -96%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $66.46 ↓ -96%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $67.12 ↓ -96%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $68.84 ↓ -96%
Humana Medicare Advantage $70.22 ↓ -96%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $71.25 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $71.45 ↓ -96%
OrthoCarolina Commercial $86.05 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $195.44 ↓ -88%
MedCost Ultra $200.18 ↓ -88%
MedCost PPO $200.18 ↓ -88%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $205.59 ↓ -87%
ChoiceCare Commercial $205.59 ↓ -87%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $254.26 ↓ -84%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $256.00 ↓ -84%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus $335.03 ↓ -79%
Aetna Broad Network $369.64 ↓ -77%
Alliance Behavioral Health $371.05 ↓ -77%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $863.29 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $933.98 ↓ -43%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $1,065.59 ↓ -35%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $1,211.86 ↓ -26%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $1,329.14 ↓ -18%
Cigna Commercial NB $1,410.58 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $1,439.90 ↓ -12%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $1,628.85 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $1,746.13 ↑ +7%
GMMI Commercial $2,117.51 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $2,117.51 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $2,198.95 ↑ +35%
Aetna First Health Commercial $2,769.05 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $2,769.05 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $2,931.93 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $2,931.93 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $3,094.82 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Biopsy(ies) & aspiration(s) bone marrow diagnostic (both sides) at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $1,628.85 $65.80 – $3,094.82
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $1,628.85 $66.46 – $2,866.78
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $1,628.85 $65.80 – $3,094.82
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $1,628.85 $65.80 – $3,094.82
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $1,628.85 $65.80 – $2,997.08
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $1,628.85 $65.80 – $2,997.08
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $1,628.85 $65.80 – $3,127.39
Atrium Health Union Monroe $1,628.85 $65.80 – $3,094.82

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