Hemoglobin 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

$48.33

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.

$96.65

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.

$2.42 with Humana vs $91.82 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
Humana Medicare Advantage $2.42 ↓ -95%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $2.45 ↓ -95%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $2.49 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $2.50 ↓ -95%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $2.92 ↓ -94%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $2.95 ↓ -94%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $2.95 ↓ -94%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $2.95 ↓ -94%
Partners Managed Medicaid $2.95 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $2.95 ↓ -94%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $2.95 ↓ -94%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $2.95 ↓ -94%
OrthoCarolina Commercial $2.96 ↓ -94%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $2.98 ↓ -94%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $2.98 ↓ -94%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $3.14 ↓ -94%
ChoiceCare Commercial $3.14 ↓ -94%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $3.92 ↓ -92%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $4.04 ↓ -92%
Aetna Broad Network $4.41 ↓ -91%
Alliance Behavioral Health $11.01 ↓ -77%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $25.61 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $31.61 ↓ -35%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $38.85 ↓ -20%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $39.43 ↓ -18%
Cigna Commercial NB $41.85 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $42.72 ↓ -12%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus $44.94 ↓ -7%
MedCost Ultra $45.52 ↓ -6%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $48.33 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $51.80 ↑ +7%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $55.09 ↑ +14%
GMMI Commercial $62.82 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $62.82 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $63.21 ↑ +31%
Cigna Commercial SAR $65.24 ↑ +35%
Aetna First Health Commercial $82.15 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $82.15 ↑ +70%
Beechstreet Commercial $86.99 ↑ +80%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $86.99 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $91.82 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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