Drug test def 22+ classes 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

$563.95

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.

$1,127.90

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.

$127.23 with Amerihealth Caritas vs $1,071.51 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
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $127.23 ↓ -77%
Alliance Behavioral Health $128.47 ↓ -77%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $129.60 ↓ -77%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $129.60 ↓ -77%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $129.60 ↓ -77%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $130.84 ↓ -77%
Partners Managed Medicaid $130.84 ↓ -77%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $132.19 ↓ -77%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $133.43 ↓ -76%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $187.57 ↓ -67%
Humana Medicare Advantage $251.86 ↓ -55%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $255.56 ↓ -55%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $259.27 ↓ -54%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $260.03 ↓ -54%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $298.89 ↓ -47%
OrthoCarolina Commercial $308.65 ↓ -45%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $323.37 ↓ -43%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $340.85 ↓ -40%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $368.94 ↓ -35%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $419.58 ↓ -26%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $425.56 ↓ -25%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $453.42 ↓ -20%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $460.18 ↓ -18%
Cigna Commercial NB $488.38 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $498.53 ↓ -12%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus $524.47 ↓ -7%
MedCost Ultra $531.24 ↓ -6%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $563.95 ↑ +0%
Aetna Broad Network $591.02 ↑ +5%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $604.55 ↑ +7%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $642.90 ↑ +14%
Quik Trip Commercial $733.14 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $733.14 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $737.65 ↑ +31%
Cigna Commercial SAR $761.33 ↑ +35%
ChoiceCare Commercial $924.88 ↑ +64%
Aetna First Health Commercial $958.72 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $958.72 ↑ +70%
Beechstreet Commercial $1,015.11 ↑ +80%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $1,015.11 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $1,071.51 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Drug test def 22+ classes at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $563.95 $168.73 – $1,071.51
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $563.95 $197.82 – $992.55
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $563.95 $138.39 – $1,071.51
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $563.95 $157.91 – $1,071.51
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $563.95 $195.86 – $1,037.67
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $563.95 $112.79 – $1,037.67
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $563.95 $135.35 – $1,082.78
Atrium Health Union Monroe $563.95 $146.63 – $1,071.51

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