Copper intrauterine device at Atrium Health Union
600 Hospital Dr, Monroe, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1396790325
$1,844.50
Cash price 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.
$3,689.00
Gross charge 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.
$479.57 with Partners vs $3,504.55 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.
Full explanation →
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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.
Full explanation →Payer ?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. Full explanation → |
Plan ?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. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $479.57 | ↓ -74% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $483.26 | ↓ -74% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $488.05 | ↓ -74% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $492.48 | ↓ -73% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $492.48 | ↓ -73% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $492.48 | ↓ -73% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $494.33 | ↓ -73% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $497.28 | ↓ -73% |
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $507.24 | ↓ -72% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $570.69 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $977.59 | ↓ -47% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $1,099.69 | ↓ -40% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $1,150.05 | ↓ -38% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $1,150.05 | ↓ -38% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $1,150.05 | ↓ -38% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $1,150.05 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial | $1,234.87 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $1,293.06 | ↓ -30% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $1,319.69 | ↓ -28% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $1,339.11 | ↓ -27% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $1,464.53 | ↓ -21% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $1,475.60 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $1,597.34 | ↓ -13% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $1,630.54 | ↓ -12% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $1,748.59 | ↓ -5% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $1,953.00 | ↑ +6% |
| MedCost | PPO | $1,953.00 | ↑ +6% |
| Magellan | Behavioral Health | $2,213.40 | ↑ +20% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $2,250.29 | ↑ +22% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $2,397.85 | ↑ +30% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $2,397.85 | ↑ +30% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $2,490.08 | ↑ +35% |
| Healthgram | Commercial | $2,951.20 | ↑ +60% |
| First Health | Commercial | $3,135.65 | ↑ +70% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $3,320.10 | ↑ +80% |
| Provider Select | Commercial | $3,320.10 | ↑ +80% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $3,320.10 | ↑ +80% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $3,504.55 | ↑ +90% |
| Ortho Carolina | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna Healthspring | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan H | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Broughton Cardinal Partners | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
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Copper intrauterine device at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $1,844.50 | $551.87 – $3,504.55 |
| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $1,844.50 | $700.91 – $3,689.00 |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Concord | $1,844.50 | $452.64 – $3,504.55 |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Shelby | $1,844.50 | $516.46 – $3,504.55 |
| Atrium Health Lincoln | Lincolnton | $1,844.50 | $416.12 – $3,504.55 |
| Atrium Health Mercy | Charlotte | $1,844.50 | $804.57 – $3,393.88 |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | $1,844.50 | $368.90 – $3,393.88 |
| Atrium Health Stanly | Albermarle | $1,844.50 | $442.68 – $3,541.44 |