Removal embedded foreign body vestibule mouth smpl 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

$106.80

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.

$213.60

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.

$24.09 with Amerihealth Caritas vs $202.92 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 $24.09 ↓ -77%
Alliance Behavioral Health $24.33 ↓ -77%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $24.54 ↓ -77%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $24.54 ↓ -77%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $24.54 ↓ -77%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $24.78 ↓ -77%
Partners Managed Medicaid $24.78 ↓ -77%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $25.03 ↓ -77%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $25.27 ↓ -76%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $35.52 ↓ -67%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $56.60 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $61.24 ↓ -43%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $64.55 ↓ -40%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $68.99 ↓ -35%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $69.87 ↓ -35%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $79.46 ↓ -26%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $80.59 ↓ -25%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $87.15 ↓ -18%
Cigna Commercial NB $92.49 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $94.41 ↓ -12%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus $99.32 ↓ -7%
MedCost Ultra $100.61 ↓ -6%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $106.80 ↑ +0%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $109.21 ↑ +2%
Humana Medicare Advantage $111.39 ↑ +4%
Aetna Broad Network $111.93 ↑ +5%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $113.03 ↑ +6%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $113.34 ↑ +6%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $114.49 ↑ +7%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $121.75 ↑ +14%
OrthoCarolina Commercial $136.51 ↑ +28%
Quik Trip Commercial $138.84 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $138.84 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $139.69 ↑ +31%
Cigna Commercial SAR $144.18 ↑ +35%
ChoiceCare Commercial $175.15 ↑ +64%
Aetna First Health Commercial $181.56 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $181.56 ↑ +70%
Beechstreet Commercial $192.24 ↑ +80%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $192.24 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $202.92 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Removal embedded foreign body vestibule mouth smpl at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $106.80 $31.95 – $202.92
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $106.80 $39.94 – $187.97
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $106.80 $26.21 – $202.92
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $106.80 $29.90 – $202.92
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $106.80 $46.59 – $196.51
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $106.80 $21.36 – $196.51
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $106.80 $25.63 – $205.06
Atrium Health Union Monroe $106.80 $27.77 – $202.92

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