Ot evaluation low complexity patient/family 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

$180.38

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.

$360.75

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.

$46.90 with Partners vs $342.71 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 $46.90 ↓ -74%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $47.26 ↓ -74%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $47.73 ↓ -74%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $48.16 ↓ -73%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $48.16 ↓ -73%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $48.16 ↓ -73%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $48.34 ↓ -73%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $48.63 ↓ -73%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $49.60 ↓ -73%
Alliance Behavioral Health $55.81 ↓ -69%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $87.59 ↓ -51%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $95.60 ↓ -47%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $96.50 ↓ -47%
Humana Medicare Advantage $98.43 ↓ -45%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $99.88 ↓ -45%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $100.15 ↓ -44%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $101.95 ↓ -43%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $107.54 ↓ -40%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $120.63 ↓ -33%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $130.95 ↓ -27%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $134.16 ↓ -26%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $143.22 ↓ -21%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $145.02 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $146.83 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $156.20 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $159.45 ↓ -12%
Aetna Broad Network $165.22 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $171.00 ↓ -5%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $186.87 ↑ +4%
MedCost Ultra $194.81 ↑ +8%
Magellan Behavioral Health $216.45 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $220.06 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $234.49 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $234.49 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $234.49 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $243.51 ↑ +35%
Healthgram Commercial $288.60 ↑ +60%
ChoiceCare Commercial $306.64 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $306.64 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $324.68 ↑ +80%
Provider Select Commercial $324.68 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $324.68 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $342.71 ↑ +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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Ot evaluation low complexity patient/family at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $180.38 $53.97 – $342.71
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $180.38 $66.09 – $317.46
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $180.38 $44.26 – $342.71
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $180.38 $50.51 – $342.71
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $180.38 $40.69 – $342.71
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $180.38 $51.53 – $331.89
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $180.38 $36.08 – $331.89
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $180.38 $43.29 – $346.32

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