Embryo hatching 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

$455.05

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.

$910.10

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.

$102.66 with Amerihealth Caritas vs $864.60 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.

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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 $102.66 ↓ -77%
Alliance Behavioral Health $103.66 ↓ -77%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $104.57 ↓ -77%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $104.57 ↓ -77%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $104.57 ↓ -77%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $105.57 ↓ -77%
Partners Managed Medicaid $105.57 ↓ -77%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $106.66 ↓ -77%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $107.66 ↓ -76%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $151.35 ↓ -67%
Humana Medicare Advantage $163.97 ↓ -64%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $166.39 ↓ -63%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $168.80 ↓ -63%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $169.30 ↓ -63%
OrthoCarolina Commercial $200.95 ↓ -56%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $241.18 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $260.93 ↓ -43%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $275.03 ↓ -40%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $297.69 ↓ -35%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $338.56 ↓ -26%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $343.38 ↓ -25%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $365.86 ↓ -20%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $371.32 ↓ -18%
Cigna Commercial NB $394.07 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $402.26 ↓ -12%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus $423.20 ↓ -7%
MedCost Ultra $428.66 ↓ -6%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $455.05 ↑ +0%
Aetna Broad Network $476.89 ↑ +5%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $487.81 ↑ +7%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $518.76 ↑ +14%
Quik Trip Commercial $591.57 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $591.57 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $595.21 ↑ +31%
Cigna Commercial SAR $614.32 ↑ +35%
ChoiceCare Commercial $746.28 ↑ +64%
Aetna First Health Commercial $773.59 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $773.59 ↑ +70%
Beechstreet Commercial $819.09 ↑ +80%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $819.09 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $864.60 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Embryo hatching at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $455.05 $136.15 – $864.60
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $455.05 $172.92 – $910.10
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $455.05 $111.67 – $864.60
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $455.05 $127.41 – $864.60
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $455.05 $166.24 – $837.29
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $455.05 $91.01 – $837.29
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $455.05 $109.21 – $873.70
Atrium Health Union Monroe $455.05 $118.31 – $864.60

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