Interrog&prgrmg ipnss 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

$761.83

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.

$1,523.65

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.

$32.26 with Trillium vs $1,447.47 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 $32.26 ↓ -96%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $32.58 ↓ -96%
Partners Managed Medicaid $32.58 ↓ -96%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $32.58 ↓ -96%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $32.58 ↓ -96%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $32.58 ↓ -96%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $32.58 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $32.58 ↓ -96%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $32.91 ↓ -96%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $36.54 ↓ -95%
Humana Medicare Advantage $37.27 ↓ -95%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $37.82 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $37.92 ↓ -95%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $45.68 ↓ -94%
Alliance Behavioral Health $235.71 ↓ -69%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $369.94 ↓ -51%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $403.77 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $430.58 ↓ -43%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $454.20 ↓ -40%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $553.08 ↓ -27%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $566.65 ↓ -26%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $604.89 ↓ -21%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $612.51 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $620.13 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $659.74 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $673.45 ↓ -12%
Aetna Broad Network $697.83 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $722.21 ↓ -5%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $789.25 ↑ +4%
MedCost Ultra $822.77 ↑ +8%
Magellan Behavioral Health $914.19 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $929.43 ↑ +22%
Quik Trip Commercial $990.37 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $990.37 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $990.37 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $1,028.46 ↑ +35%
Healthgram Commercial $1,218.92 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $1,295.10 ↑ +70%
ChoiceCare Commercial $1,295.10 ↑ +70%
Beechstreet Commercial $1,371.29 ↑ +80%
Provider Select Commercial $1,371.29 ↑ +80%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $1,371.29 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $1,447.47 ↑ +90%
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 —

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Interrog&prgrmg ipnss at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $761.83 $32.26 – $1,447.47
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $761.83 $32.58 – $1,340.81
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $761.83 $32.26 – $1,447.47
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $761.83 $32.26 – $1,447.47
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $761.83 $32.26 – $1,447.47
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $761.83 $32.26 – $1,401.76
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $761.83 $32.26 – $1,401.76
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $761.83 $32.26 – $1,462.70

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