Liver/spleen imag static only 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

$1,140.78

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.

$2,281.55

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.

$20.24 with Trillium vs $2,167.47 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
Trillium Managed Medicaid $20.24 ↓ -98%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $20.44 ↓ -98%
Partners Managed Medicaid $20.44 ↓ -98%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $20.44 ↓ -98%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $20.44 ↓ -98%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $20.44 ↓ -98%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $20.44 ↓ -98%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $20.44 ↓ -98%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $20.64 ↓ -98%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $21.37 ↓ -98%
Humana Medicare Advantage $21.80 ↓ -98%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $22.12 ↓ -98%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $22.18 ↓ -98%
OrthoCarolina Commercial $26.71 ↓ -98%
Alliance Behavioral Health $259.87 ↓ -77%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $604.61 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $654.12 ↓ -43%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $689.48 ↓ -40%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $746.30 ↓ -35%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $848.74 ↓ -26%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $860.83 ↓ -25%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $917.18 ↓ -20%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $930.87 ↓ -18%
Cigna Commercial NB $987.91 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $1,008.45 ↓ -12%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus $1,060.92 ↓ -7%
MedCost Ultra $1,074.61 ↓ -6%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $1,140.78 ↑ +0%
Aetna Broad Network $1,195.53 ↑ +5%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $1,222.91 ↑ +7%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $1,300.48 ↑ +14%
Quik Trip Commercial $1,483.01 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $1,483.01 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $1,492.13 ↑ +31%
Cigna Commercial SAR $1,540.05 ↑ +35%
ChoiceCare Commercial $1,870.87 ↑ +64%
Aetna First Health Commercial $1,939.32 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $1,939.32 ↑ +70%
Beechstreet Commercial $2,053.40 ↑ +80%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $2,053.40 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $2,167.47 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Liver/spleen imag static only at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $1,140.78 $20.24 – $2,167.47
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $1,140.78 $20.44 – $2,007.76
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $1,140.78 $20.24 – $2,167.47
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $1,140.78 $20.24 – $2,167.47
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $1,140.78 $20.24 – $2,099.03
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $1,140.78 $20.24 – $2,099.03
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $1,140.78 $20.24 – $2,190.29
Atrium Health Union Monroe $1,140.78 $20.24 – $2,167.47

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