Graft impl ult thck 6x12cm -cost per sq cm 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

$364.50

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.

$729.00

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.

$19.11 with Partners vs $139.65 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 $19.11 ↓ -95%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $19.26 ↓ -95%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $19.45 ↓ -95%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $19.62 ↓ -95%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $19.62 ↓ -95%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $19.62 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $19.70 ↓ -95%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $19.82 ↓ -95%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $20.21 ↓ -94%
Alliance Behavioral Health $22.74 ↓ -94%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $23.51 ↓ -94%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $31.53 ↓ -91%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $38.96 ↓ -89%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $41.50 ↓ -89%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $43.82 ↓ -88%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $53.36 ↓ -85%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $58.36 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $59.09 ↓ -84%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $59.83 ↓ -84%
Cigna Commercial NB $63.65 ↓ -83%
Employers Health Network Commercial $64.97 ↓ -82%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $66.74 ↓ -82%
Aetna Broad Network $67.33 ↓ -82%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $69.68 ↓ -81%
MedCost Ultra $79.38 ↓ -78%
Magellan Behavioral Health $88.20 ↓ -76%
Aetna First Health Commercial $89.67 ↓ -75%
Quik Trip Commercial $95.55 ↓ -74%
GMMI Commercial $95.55 ↓ -74%
MedCost PPO $95.55 ↓ -74%
Cigna Commercial SAR $99.23 ↓ -73%
Healthgram Commercial $117.60 ↓ -68%
ChoiceCare Commercial $124.95 ↓ -66%
First Health Commercial $124.95 ↓ -66%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $132.30 ↓ -64%
Provider Select Commercial $132.30 ↓ -64%
Beechstreet Commercial $132.30 ↓ -64%
Multiplan Commercial $139.65 ↓ -62%
Aetna Medicare Advantage not published by hospital —
Humana Medicare Advantage not published by hospital —
Ortho Carolina Commercial not published by hospital —
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage not published by hospital —
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital —
Physician Reach Out Plan P not published by hospital —
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital —
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage not published by hospital —

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