Red blood cells leukocytes reduced each unit 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

$349.88

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.

$699.75

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.

$90.97 with Partners vs $664.76 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 $90.97 ↓ -74%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $91.67 ↓ -74%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $92.58 ↓ -74%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $93.42 ↓ -73%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $93.42 ↓ -73%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $93.42 ↓ -73%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $93.77 ↓ -73%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $94.33 ↓ -73%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $96.22 ↓ -72%
Alliance Behavioral Health $108.25 ↓ -69%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $169.90 ↓ -51%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $185.43 ↓ -47%
Humana Medicare Advantage $185.64 ↓ -47%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $188.37 ↓ -46%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $191.10 ↓ -45%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $191.66 ↓ -45%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $197.75 ↓ -43%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $208.60 ↓ -40%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $227.50 ↓ -35%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $254.01 ↓ -27%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $260.24 ↓ -26%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $277.80 ↓ -21%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $281.30 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $284.80 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $302.99 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $309.29 ↓ -12%
Aetna Broad Network $320.49 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $331.68 ↓ -5%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $362.47 ↑ +4%
MedCost Ultra $377.87 ↑ +8%
Magellan Behavioral Health $419.85 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $426.85 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $454.84 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $454.84 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $454.84 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $472.33 ↑ +35%
Healthgram Commercial $559.80 ↑ +60%
ChoiceCare Commercial $594.79 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $594.79 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $629.78 ↑ +80%
Provider Select Commercial $629.78 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $629.78 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $664.76 ↑ +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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Red blood cells leukocytes reduced each unit at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $349.88 $104.68 – $664.76
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $349.88 $132.95 – $699.75
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $349.88 $85.86 – $664.76
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $349.88 $97.97 – $664.76
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $349.88 $78.93 – $664.76
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $349.88 $85.42 – $643.77
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $349.88 $69.98 – $643.77
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $349.88 $83.97 – $671.76

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