Brace m arm board at Atrium Health Lincoln
433 McAlister Rd, Lincolnton, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1730055054
$7.43
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.
$14.85
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.
$1.18 with Amerihealth Caritas vs $344.60 with OrthoCarolina — 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 | $1.18 | ↓ -84% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $1.19 | ↓ -84% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $1.20 | ↓ -84% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $1.20 | ↓ -84% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $1.20 | ↓ -84% |
| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $1.21 | ↓ -84% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $1.21 | ↓ -84% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $1.22 | ↓ -84% |
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $1.23 | ↓ -83% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $1.73 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $2.76 | ↓ -63% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $2.99 | ↓ -60% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $3.15 | ↓ -58% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $3.41 | ↓ -54% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $3.88 | ↓ -48% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $3.93 | ↓ -47% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $4.19 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $4.25 | ↓ -43% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $4.51 | ↓ -39% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $4.61 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus | $4.85 | ↓ -35% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $4.91 | ↓ -34% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $5.21 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $5.46 | ↓ -27% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $5.59 | ↓ -25% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $5.94 | ↓ -20% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $6.77 | ↓ -9% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $6.77 | ↓ -9% |
| MedCost | PPO | $6.81 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $7.03 | ↓ -5% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $8.54 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $8.86 | ↑ +19% |
| First Health | Commercial | $8.86 | ↑ +19% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $9.38 | ↑ +26% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $9.38 | ↑ +26% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $9.90 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $281.19 | ↑ +3685% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $285.33 | ↑ +3740% |
| Cigna Healthspring | Medicare Advantage | $289.46 | ↑ +3796% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $290.32 | ↑ +3807% |
| OrthoCarolina | Commercial | $344.60 | ↑ +4538% |
| Broughton Cardinal Partners | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan H | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Brace m arm board at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sentara Albemarle Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth City | $117.00 | not published |