Ghs layer closure 5.1 - 7.5 cm - 12053 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

$310.75

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.

$621.50

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.

$80.80 with Partners vs $590.43 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 $80.80 ↓ -74%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $81.42 ↓ -74%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $82.22 ↓ -74%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $82.97 ↓ -73%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $82.97 ↓ -73%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $82.97 ↓ -73%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $83.28 ↓ -73%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $83.78 ↓ -73%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $85.46 ↓ -72%
Alliance Behavioral Health $96.15 ↓ -69%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $99.38 ↓ -68%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $133.31 ↓ -57%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $164.70 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $175.45 ↓ -44%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $185.27 ↓ -40%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $198.69 ↓ -36%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $200.74 ↓ -35%
Humana Medicare Advantage $202.66 ↓ -35%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $205.64 ↓ -34%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $206.21 ↓ -34%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $225.60 ↓ -27%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $246.74 ↓ -21%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $248.36 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $252.95 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $269.11 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $274.70 ↓ -12%
Aetna Broad Network $284.65 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $294.59 ↓ -5%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $321.94 ↑ +4%
MedCost Ultra $335.61 ↑ +8%
Magellan Behavioral Health $372.90 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $379.12 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $403.98 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $403.98 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $403.98 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $419.51 ↑ +35%
Healthgram Commercial $497.20 ↑ +60%
ChoiceCare Commercial $528.28 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $528.28 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $559.35 ↑ +80%
Provider Select Commercial $559.35 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $559.35 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $590.43 ↑ +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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Ghs layer closure 5.1 - 7.5 cm - 12053 at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $310.75 $92.98 – $590.43
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $310.75 $116.22 – $546.92
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $310.75 $76.26 – $590.43
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $310.75 $87.01 – $590.43
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $310.75 $70.11 – $590.43
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $310.75 $75.38 – $571.78
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $310.75 $62.15 – $571.78
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $310.75 $74.58 – $596.64

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