Spirometry bronchodilation responsiveness pre/post bronchodilator administration 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

$549.83

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.

$1,099.65

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.

$9.43 with Cigna Healthspring vs $167.55 with Cigna — 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
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $9.43 ↓ -98%
Humana Medicare Advantage $9.62 ↓ -98%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $9.76 ↓ -98%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $9.79 ↓ -98%
OrthoCarolina Commercial $11.79 ↓ -98%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $11.80 ↓ -98%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $11.92 ↓ -98%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $11.92 ↓ -98%
Partners Managed Medicaid $11.92 ↓ -98%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $11.92 ↓ -98%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $11.92 ↓ -98%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $11.92 ↓ -98%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $11.92 ↓ -98%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $12.04 ↓ -98%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $17.42 ↓ -97%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $18.99 ↓ -97%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus $19.85 ↓ -96%
Aetna Broad Network $21.90 ↓ -96%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $24.73 ↓ -96%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $32.29 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $32.52 ↓ -94%
Aetna First Health Commercial $32.64 ↓ -94%
MedCost Ultra $33.41 ↓ -94%
MedCost PPO $33.41 ↓ -94%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $34.12 ↓ -94%
ChoiceCare Commercial $34.12 ↓ -94%
Employers Health Network Commercial $34.62 ↓ -94%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $35.36 ↓ -94%
GMMI Commercial $37.09 ↓ -93%
Quik Trip Commercial $37.09 ↓ -93%
Multiplan Commercial $39.56 ↓ -93%
First Health Commercial $42.03 ↓ -92%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $42.49 ↓ -92%
Cigna Commercial SAR $44.06 ↓ -92%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $44.06 ↓ -92%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $44.51 ↓ -92%
Beechstreet Commercial $44.51 ↓ -92%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $96.49 ↓ -82%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $101.64 ↓ -82%
Alliance Behavioral Health $125.25 ↓ -77%
Cigna Commercial NB $167.55 ↓ -70%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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