Ghs eyelid foreign body-embedded - bil 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

$200.73

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.

$401.45

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.

$45.28 with Amerihealth Caritas vs $381.38 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 $45.28 ↓ -77%
Alliance Behavioral Health $45.73 ↓ -77%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $46.13 ↓ -77%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $46.13 ↓ -77%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $46.13 ↓ -77%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $46.57 ↓ -77%
Partners Managed Medicaid $46.57 ↓ -77%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $47.05 ↓ -77%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $47.49 ↓ -76%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $66.76 ↓ -67%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $105.45 ↓ -47%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $106.38 ↓ -47%
Humana Medicare Advantage $107.56 ↓ -46%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $109.14 ↓ -46%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $109.44 ↓ -45%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $115.10 ↓ -43%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $121.32 ↓ -40%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $129.67 ↓ -35%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $131.31 ↓ -35%
OrthoCarolina Commercial $131.81 ↓ -34%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $149.34 ↓ -26%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $151.47 ↓ -25%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $163.79 ↓ -18%
Cigna Commercial NB $173.83 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $177.44 ↓ -12%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus $186.67 ↓ -7%
MedCost Ultra $189.08 ↓ -6%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $200.73 ↑ +0%
Aetna Broad Network $210.36 ↑ +5%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $215.18 ↑ +7%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $228.83 ↑ +14%
Quik Trip Commercial $260.94 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $260.94 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $262.55 ↑ +31%
Cigna Commercial SAR $270.98 ↑ +35%
ChoiceCare Commercial $329.19 ↑ +64%
Aetna First Health Commercial $341.23 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $341.23 ↑ +70%
Beechstreet Commercial $361.31 ↑ +80%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $361.31 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $381.38 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Ghs eyelid foreign body-embedded - bil at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $200.73 $60.06 – $381.38
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $200.73 $75.07 – $353.28
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $200.73 $49.26 – $381.38
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $200.73 $56.20 – $381.38
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $200.73 $75.38 – $369.33
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $200.73 $40.15 – $369.33
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $200.73 $48.17 – $385.39
Atrium Health Union Monroe $200.73 $52.19 – $381.38

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