CT orbit/sella/ or posterior outer inner or middle ear w/contrast at Atrium Health Lincoln
433 McAlister Rd, Lincolnton, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1730055054
$1,619.05
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.
$3,238.10
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.
$49.91 with Cigna Healthspring vs $3,076.20 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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| Cigna Healthspring | Medicare Advantage | $49.91 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $50.91 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $51.66 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $51.80 | ↓ -97% |
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $57.15 | ↓ -96% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $57.72 | ↓ -96% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $57.72 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $57.72 | ↓ -96% |
| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $57.72 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $57.72 | ↓ -96% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $57.72 | ↓ -96% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $57.72 | ↓ -96% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $58.29 | ↓ -96% |
| OrthoCarolina | Commercial | $62.39 | ↓ -96% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $368.82 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $858.10 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus | $906.00 | ↓ -44% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $928.36 | ↓ -43% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $978.55 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $1,020.00 | ↓ -37% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $1,059.18 | ↓ -35% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $1,204.57 | ↓ -26% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $1,221.74 | ↓ -25% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $1,301.72 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $1,321.14 | ↓ -18% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $1,402.10 | ↓ -13% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $1,431.24 | ↓ -12% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $1,525.15 | ↓ -6% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $1,619.05 | ↑ +0% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $1,735.62 | ↑ +7% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $1,845.72 | ↑ +14% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $2,104.77 | ↑ +30% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $2,104.77 | ↑ +30% |
| MedCost | PPO | $2,117.72 | ↑ +31% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $2,185.72 | ↑ +35% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $2,655.24 | ↑ +64% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $2,752.39 | ↑ +70% |
| First Health | Commercial | $2,752.39 | ↑ +70% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $2,914.29 | ↑ +80% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $2,914.29 | ↑ +80% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $3,076.20 | ↑ +90% |
| Broughton Cardinal Partners | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan H | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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CT orbit/sella/ or posterior outer inner or middle ear w/contrast at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $1,619.05 | $49.91 – $3,076.20 |
| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $1,619.05 | $49.91 – $2,849.53 |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Concord | $1,619.05 | $49.91 – $3,076.20 |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Shelby | $1,619.05 | $49.91 – $3,076.20 |
| Atrium Health Mercy | Charlotte | $1,619.05 | $49.91 – $2,979.05 |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | $1,619.05 | $49.91 – $2,979.05 |
| Atrium Health Stanly | Albermarle | $1,619.05 | $49.91 – $3,108.58 |
| Atrium Health Union | Monroe | $1,619.05 | $49.91 – $3,076.20 |