Low cost skin substitute app 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

$741.18

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.

$1,482.35

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.

$192.71 with Partners vs $1,408.23 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 $192.71 ↓ -74%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $194.19 ↓ -74%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $196.11 ↓ -74%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $197.89 ↓ -73%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $197.89 ↓ -73%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $197.89 ↓ -73%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $198.63 ↓ -73%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $199.82 ↓ -73%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $203.82 ↓ -73%
Alliance Behavioral Health $229.32 ↓ -69%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $237.03 ↓ -68%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $317.96 ↓ -57%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $392.82 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $418.47 ↓ -44%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $441.89 ↓ -40%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $538.09 ↓ -27%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $588.49 ↓ -21%
Humana Medicare Advantage $593.84 ↓ -20%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $595.90 ↓ -20%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $602.57 ↓ -19%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $603.32 ↓ -19%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $611.31 ↓ -18%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $613.11 ↓ -17%
Cigna Commercial NB $641.86 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $655.20 ↓ -12%
Aetna Broad Network $678.92 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $702.63 ↓ -5%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $727.75 ↓ -2%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $767.86 ↑ +4%
MedCost Ultra $800.47 ↑ +8%
Magellan Behavioral Health $889.41 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $904.23 ↑ +22%
Quik Trip Commercial $963.53 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $963.53 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $963.53 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $1,000.59 ↑ +35%
Healthgram Commercial $1,185.88 ↑ +60%
ChoiceCare Commercial $1,260.00 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $1,260.00 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $1,334.12 ↑ +80%
Provider Select Commercial $1,334.12 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $1,334.12 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $1,408.23 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital —
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital —
Physician Reach Out Plan P not published by hospital —

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Low cost skin substitute app at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $741.18 $221.76 – $1,408.23
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $741.18 $281.65 – $1,482.35
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $741.18 $181.88 – $1,408.23
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $741.18 $207.53 – $1,408.23
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $741.18 $167.21 – $1,408.23
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $741.18 $266.38 – $1,363.76
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $741.18 $148.24 – $1,363.76
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $741.18 $177.88 – $1,423.06

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