Cta lower extremity without & w/contrast (both sides) 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

$2,075.53

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.

$4,151.05

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.

$79.70 with Trillium vs $3,943.50 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
Trillium Managed Medicaid $79.70 ↓ -96%
Partners Managed Medicaid $80.50 ↓ -96%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $80.50 ↓ -96%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $80.50 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $80.50 ↓ -96%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $80.50 ↓ -96%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $80.50 ↓ -96%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $80.50 ↓ -96%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $81.29 ↓ -96%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $83.38 ↓ -96%
Humana Medicare Advantage $85.05 ↓ -96%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $86.30 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $86.54 ↓ -96%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $104.23 ↓ -95%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $542.54 ↓ -74%
Alliance Behavioral Health $642.17 ↓ -69%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $705.68 ↓ -66%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $906.00 ↓ -56%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $928.59 ↓ -55%
Aetna Broad Network $1,020.00 ↓ -51%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $1,023.10 ↓ -51%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $1,100.03 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $1,237.43 ↓ -40%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $1,506.83 ↓ -27%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $1,647.97 ↓ -21%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $1,668.72 ↓ -20%
Cigna Commercial NB $1,797.40 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $1,834.76 ↓ -12%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $1,967.60 ↓ -5%
MedCost Ultra $2,241.57 ↑ +8%
Magellan Behavioral Health $2,490.63 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $2,532.14 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $2,698.18 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $2,698.18 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $2,698.18 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $2,801.96 ↑ +35%
Healthgram Commercial $3,320.84 ↑ +60%
ChoiceCare Commercial $3,528.39 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $3,528.39 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $3,735.95 ↑ +80%
Provider Select Commercial $3,735.95 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $3,735.95 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $3,943.50 ↑ +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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Cta lower extremity without & w/contrast (both sides) at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $2,075.53 $79.70 – $3,943.50
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $2,075.53 $80.50 – $3,652.92
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $2,075.53 $79.70 – $3,943.50
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $2,075.53 $79.70 – $3,943.50
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $2,075.53 $79.70 – $3,943.50
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $2,075.53 $79.70 – $3,818.97
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $2,075.53 $79.70 – $3,818.97
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $2,075.53 $79.70 – $3,985.01

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