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Bone Density Scan (DEXA) at Atrium Health Lincoln
433 McAlister Rd, Lincolnton, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1730055054
$413.48
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.
$826.95
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.
$8.20 with Trillium vs $785.60 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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| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $8.20 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $8.28 | ↓ -98% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $8.28 | ↓ -98% |
| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $8.28 | ↓ -98% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $8.28 | ↓ -98% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $8.28 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $8.28 | ↓ -98% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $8.28 | ↓ -98% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $8.36 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna Healthspring | Medicare Advantage | $8.78 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $8.96 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $9.09 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $9.11 | ↓ -98% |
| OrthoCarolina | Commercial | $10.98 | ↓ -97% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $16.79 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus | $18.50 | ↓ -96% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $20.36 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $20.41 | ↓ -95% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $21.51 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $21.51 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $21.68 | ↓ -95% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $25.21 | ↓ -94% |
| MedCost | PPO | $25.21 | ↓ -94% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $26.80 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $46.35 | ↓ -89% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $94.19 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $150.41 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $219.14 | ↓ -47% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $270.50 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $358.07 | ↓ -13% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $365.51 | ↓ -12% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $413.48 | ↑ +0% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $443.25 | ↑ +7% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $537.52 | ↑ +30% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $537.52 | ↑ +30% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $558.19 | ↑ +35% |
| First Health | Commercial | $702.91 | ↑ +70% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $702.91 | ↑ +70% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $744.26 | ↑ +80% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $744.26 | ↑ +80% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $785.60 | ↑ +90% |
| Broughton Cardinal Partners | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan H | not published by hospital | — |
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Bone Density Scan (DEXA) at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $413.48 | $8.20 – $785.60 |
| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $413.48 | $8.28 – $727.72 |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Shelby | $413.48 | $8.20 – $785.60 |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Concord | $413.48 | $8.20 – $785.60 |
| Atrium Health Mercy | Charlotte | $413.48 | $8.20 – $760.79 |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | $413.48 | $8.20 – $760.79 |
| Atrium Health Stanly | Albermarle | $413.48 | $8.20 – $793.87 |
| Atrium Health Union | Monroe | $413.48 | $8.20 – $785.60 |