Thromboplastin inhibition 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

$36.95

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.

$73.90

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.

$8.34 with Amerihealth Caritas vs $70.21 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 $8.34 ↓ -77%
Alliance Behavioral Health $8.42 ↓ -77%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $8.49 ↓ -77%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $8.49 ↓ -77%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $8.49 ↓ -77%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $8.57 ↓ -77%
Partners Managed Medicaid $8.57 ↓ -77%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $8.66 ↓ -77%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $8.74 ↓ -76%
Humana Medicare Advantage $9.82 ↓ -73%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $9.97 ↓ -73%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $10.11 ↓ -73%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $10.14 ↓ -73%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $11.99 ↓ -68%
OrthoCarolina Commercial $12.04 ↓ -67%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $19.58 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $21.19 ↓ -43%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $22.33 ↓ -40%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $24.17 ↓ -35%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $27.49 ↓ -26%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $27.88 ↓ -25%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $29.71 ↓ -20%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $30.15 ↓ -18%
Cigna Commercial NB $32.00 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $32.66 ↓ -12%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus $34.36 ↓ -7%
MedCost Ultra $34.81 ↓ -6%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $36.95 ↑ +0%
Aetna Broad Network $38.72 ↑ +5%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $39.61 ↑ +7%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $42.12 ↑ +14%
Quik Trip Commercial $48.04 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $48.04 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $48.33 ↑ +31%
Cigna Commercial SAR $49.88 ↑ +35%
ChoiceCare Commercial $60.60 ↑ +64%
Aetna First Health Commercial $62.82 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $62.82 ↑ +70%
Beechstreet Commercial $66.51 ↑ +80%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $66.51 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $70.21 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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