Interferon alfa-2b inj at Atrium Health Union
600 Hospital Dr, Monroe, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1396790325
$2,855.75
Cash price 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.
$5,711.50
Gross charge 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.
$185.62 with Partners vs $1,356.46 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.
Full explanation →
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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.
Full explanation →Payer ?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. Full explanation → |
Plan ?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. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $185.62 | ↓ -94% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $187.05 | ↓ -93% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $188.90 | ↓ -93% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $190.62 | ↓ -93% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $190.62 | ↓ -93% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $190.62 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $191.33 | ↓ -93% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $192.47 | ↓ -93% |
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $196.33 | ↓ -93% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $220.89 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $378.38 | ↓ -87% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $425.64 | ↓ -85% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $445.92 | ↓ -84% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $445.92 | ↓ -84% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $445.92 | ↓ -84% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $518.31 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $566.86 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $571.14 | ↓ -80% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $574.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial | $581.13 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $618.26 | ↓ -78% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $631.11 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $653.96 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $676.80 | ↓ -76% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $771.04 | ↓ -73% |
| Magellan | Behavioral Health | $856.71 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $870.99 | ↓ -70% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $928.10 | ↓ -68% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $928.10 | ↓ -68% |
| MedCost | PPO | $928.10 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $963.80 | ↓ -66% |
| Healthgram | Commercial | $1,142.28 | ↓ -60% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $1,213.67 | ↓ -58% |
| First Health | Commercial | $1,213.67 | ↓ -58% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $1,285.07 | ↓ -55% |
| Provider Select | Commercial | $1,285.07 | ↓ -55% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $1,285.07 | ↓ -55% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $1,356.46 | ↓ -53% |
| 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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Interferon alfa-2b inj at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $2,855.75 | $213.61 – $1,356.46 |
| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $2,855.75 | $271.29 – $1,427.85 |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Concord | $2,855.75 | $175.20 – $1,356.46 |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Shelby | $2,855.75 | $199.90 – $1,356.46 |
| Atrium Health Lincoln | Lincolnton | $2,855.75 | $161.06 – $1,356.46 |
| Atrium Health Mercy | Charlotte | $2,855.75 | $32.87 – $1,313.62 |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | $2,855.75 | $142.79 – $1,313.62 |
| Atrium Health Stanly | Albermarle | $2,855.75 | $171.34 – $1,370.74 |