Clsd tx/metacar/interphal artic fx 26740 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

$506.10

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.

$1,012.20

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.

$131.59 with Partners vs $961.59 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 $131.59 ↓ -74%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $132.60 ↓ -74%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $133.91 ↓ -74%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $135.13 ↓ -73%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $135.13 ↓ -73%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $135.13 ↓ -73%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $135.63 ↓ -73%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $136.44 ↓ -73%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $139.18 ↓ -72%
Alliance Behavioral Health $156.59 ↓ -69%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $212.83 ↓ -58%
Humana Medicare Advantage $217.09 ↓ -57%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $220.28 ↓ -56%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $220.89 ↓ -56%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $266.04 ↓ -47%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $268.23 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $301.74 ↓ -40%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $326.94 ↓ -35%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $367.43 ↓ -27%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $401.84 ↓ -21%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $404.37 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $411.97 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $438.28 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $447.39 ↓ -12%
Aetna Broad Network $463.59 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $479.78 ↓ -5%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $532.11 ↑ +5%
MedCost PPO $539.11 ↑ +7%
MedCost Ultra $539.11 ↑ +7%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $571.89 ↑ +13%
Magellan Behavioral Health $607.32 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $617.44 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $657.93 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $657.93 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $683.24 ↑ +35%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $706.82 ↑ +40%
Healthgram Commercial $809.76 ↑ +60%
ChoiceCare Commercial $860.37 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $860.37 ↑ +70%
Beechstreet Commercial $910.98 ↑ +80%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $910.98 ↑ +80%
Provider Select Commercial $910.98 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $961.59 ↑ +90%
Physician Reach Out Plan P not published by hospital
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Clsd tx/metacar/interphal artic fx 26740 at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $506.10 $141.38 – $961.59
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $506.10 $142.79 – $890.74
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Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $506.10 $101.22 – $931.22
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