Chorion biopsy at Atrium Health Union

600 Hospital Dr, Monroe, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1396790325

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Dec 4, 2025 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$160.88

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.

$321.75

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.

$41.83 with Partners vs $305.66 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
Partners Managed Medicaid $41.83 ↓ -74%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $42.15 ↓ -74%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $42.57 ↓ -74%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $42.95 ↓ -73%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $42.95 ↓ -73%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $42.95 ↓ -73%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $43.11 ↓ -73%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $43.37 ↓ -73%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $44.24 ↓ -73%
Alliance Behavioral Health $49.77 ↓ -69%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $51.45 ↓ -68%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $69.02 ↓ -57%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $85.26 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $90.83 ↓ -44%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $95.91 ↓ -40%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $116.80 ↓ -27%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $117.71 ↓ -27%
Humana Medicare Advantage $120.06 ↓ -25%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $121.83 ↓ -24%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $122.17 ↓ -24%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $127.73 ↓ -21%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $129.34 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $130.95 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $139.32 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $142.21 ↓ -12%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $147.14 ↓ -9%
Aetna Broad Network $147.36 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $152.51 ↓ -5%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $166.67 ↑ +4%
MedCost Ultra $173.75 ↑ +8%
Magellan Behavioral Health $193.05 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $196.27 ↑ +22%
Quik Trip Commercial $209.14 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $209.14 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $209.14 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $217.18 ↑ +35%
Healthgram Commercial $257.40 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $273.49 ↑ +70%
ChoiceCare Commercial $273.49 ↑ +70%
Beechstreet Commercial $289.58 ↑ +80%
Provider Select Commercial $289.58 ↑ +80%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $289.58 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $305.66 ↑ +90%
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital —
Physician Reach Out Plan P not published by hospital —
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital —

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Chorion biopsy at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $160.88 $48.13 – $305.66
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $160.88 $61.13 – $283.14
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $160.88 $39.48 – $305.66
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $160.88 $45.05 – $305.66
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $160.88 $36.29 – $305.66
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $160.88 $57.82 – $314.06
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $160.88 $32.18 – $296.01
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $160.88 $38.61 – $308.88

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