Diagnostic laryngoscopy 31505 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

$93.65

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.

$187.30

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.

$24.35 with Partners vs $177.94 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 $24.35 ↓ -74%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $24.54 ↓ -74%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $24.78 ↓ -74%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $25.00 ↓ -73%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $25.00 ↓ -73%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $25.00 ↓ -73%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $25.10 ↓ -73%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $25.25 ↓ -73%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $25.75 ↓ -73%
Alliance Behavioral Health $28.98 ↓ -69%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $29.95 ↓ -68%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $40.18 ↓ -57%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $45.80 ↓ -51%
Humana Medicare Advantage $46.72 ↓ -50%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $47.40 ↓ -49%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $47.53 ↓ -49%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $49.63 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $52.87 ↓ -44%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $55.83 ↓ -40%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $57.25 ↓ -39%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $60.50 ↓ -35%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $67.99 ↓ -27%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $74.36 ↓ -21%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $76.23 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $81.10 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $82.79 ↓ -12%
Aetna Broad Network $85.78 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $88.78 ↓ -5%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $97.02 ↑ +4%
MedCost Ultra $101.14 ↑ +8%
Magellan Behavioral Health $112.38 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $114.25 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $121.75 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $121.75 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $121.75 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $126.43 ↑ +35%
Healthgram Commercial $149.84 ↑ +60%
ChoiceCare Commercial $159.21 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $159.21 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $168.57 ↑ +80%
Provider Select Commercial $168.57 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $168.57 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $177.94 ↑ +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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Diagnostic laryngoscopy 31505 at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $93.65 $28.02 – $177.94
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $93.65 $35.03 – $164.82
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $93.65 $22.98 – $177.94
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $93.65 $26.22 – $177.94
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $93.65 $21.13 – $177.94
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $93.65 $33.66 – $172.32
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $93.65 $18.73 – $172.32
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $93.65 $22.48 – $179.81

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