Fluid pressure muscle 20950 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

$188.38

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.

$376.75

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.

$42.50 with Amerihealth Caritas vs $357.91 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 $42.50 ↓ -77%
Alliance Behavioral Health $42.91 ↓ -77%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $43.29 ↓ -77%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $43.29 ↓ -77%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $43.29 ↓ -77%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $43.70 ↓ -77%
Partners Managed Medicaid $43.70 ↓ -77%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $44.16 ↓ -77%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $44.57 ↓ -76%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $62.65 ↓ -67%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $81.65 ↓ -57%
Humana Medicare Advantage $83.28 ↓ -56%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $84.51 ↓ -55%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $84.74 ↓ -55%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $99.84 ↓ -47%
OrthoCarolina Commercial $102.06 ↓ -46%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $108.01 ↓ -43%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $113.85 ↓ -40%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $121.69 ↓ -35%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $123.23 ↓ -35%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $140.15 ↓ -26%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $142.15 ↓ -25%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $153.71 ↓ -18%
Cigna Commercial NB $163.13 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $166.52 ↓ -12%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus $175.19 ↓ -7%
MedCost Ultra $177.45 ↓ -6%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $188.38 ↑ +0%
Aetna Broad Network $197.42 ↑ +5%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $201.94 ↑ +7%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $214.75 ↑ +14%
Quik Trip Commercial $244.89 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $244.89 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $246.39 ↑ +31%
Cigna Commercial SAR $254.31 ↑ +35%
ChoiceCare Commercial $308.94 ↑ +64%
Aetna First Health Commercial $320.24 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $320.24 ↑ +70%
Beechstreet Commercial $339.08 ↑ +80%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $339.08 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $357.91 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
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