MRI fetal ea addl gestation 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

$340.93

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.

$681.85

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.

$76.91 with Amerihealth Caritas vs $647.76 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 $76.91 ↓ -77%
Alliance Behavioral Health $77.66 ↓ -77%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $78.34 ↓ -77%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $78.34 ↓ -77%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $78.34 ↓ -77%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $79.09 ↓ -77%
Partners Managed Medicaid $79.09 ↓ -77%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $79.91 ↓ -77%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $80.66 ↓ -76%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $82.36 ↓ -76%
Humana Medicare Advantage $84.01 ↓ -75%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $85.24 ↓ -75%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $85.48 ↓ -75%
OrthoCarolina Commercial $102.95 ↓ -70%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $113.39 ↓ -67%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $180.69 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $195.49 ↓ -43%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $206.06 ↓ -40%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $223.03 ↓ -35%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $253.65 ↓ -26%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $257.26 ↓ -25%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $274.10 ↓ -20%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $278.19 ↓ -18%
Cigna Commercial NB $295.24 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $301.38 ↓ -12%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus $317.06 ↓ -7%
MedCost Ultra $321.15 ↓ -6%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $340.93 ↑ +0%
Aetna Broad Network $357.29 ↑ +5%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $365.47 ↑ +7%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $388.65 ↑ +14%
Quik Trip Commercial $443.20 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $443.20 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $445.93 ↑ +31%
Cigna Commercial SAR $460.25 ↑ +35%
ChoiceCare Commercial $559.12 ↑ +64%
Aetna First Health Commercial $579.57 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $579.57 ↑ +70%
Beechstreet Commercial $613.67 ↑ +80%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $613.67 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $647.76 ↑ +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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Atrium Health Union Monroe $340.93 $82.36 – $647.76

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