Esophageal motility 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

$655.45

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.

$1,310.90

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.

$31.07 with Trillium vs $1,245.36 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 $31.07 ↓ -95%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $31.17 ↓ -95%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $31.38 ↓ -95%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $31.38 ↓ -95%
Partners Managed Medicaid $31.38 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $31.38 ↓ -95%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $31.38 ↓ -95%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $31.38 ↓ -95%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $31.38 ↓ -95%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $31.69 ↓ -95%
Humana Medicare Advantage $31.79 ↓ -95%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $32.26 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $32.35 ↓ -95%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $38.96 ↓ -94%
Alliance Behavioral Health $202.80 ↓ -69%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $318.29 ↓ -51%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $347.39 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $370.46 ↓ -43%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $390.78 ↓ -40%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $475.86 ↓ -27%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $487.52 ↓ -26%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $520.43 ↓ -21%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $526.98 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $533.54 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $567.62 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $579.42 ↓ -12%
Aetna Broad Network $600.39 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $621.37 ↓ -5%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $679.05 ↑ +4%
MedCost Ultra $707.89 ↑ +8%
Magellan Behavioral Health $786.54 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $799.65 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $852.09 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $852.09 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $852.09 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $884.86 ↑ +35%
Healthgram Commercial $1,048.72 ↑ +60%
ChoiceCare Commercial $1,114.27 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $1,114.27 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $1,179.81 ↑ +80%
Provider Select Commercial $1,179.81 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $1,179.81 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $1,245.36 ↑ +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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Esophageal motility at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $655.45 $31.07 – $1,245.36
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $655.45 $31.17 – $1,153.59
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $655.45 $31.07 – $1,245.36
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $655.45 $31.07 – $1,245.36
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $655.45 $31.07 – $1,245.36
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $655.45 $31.07 – $1,206.03
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $655.45 $31.07 – $1,206.03
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $655.45 $31.07 – $1,258.46

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