Removal of implant deep 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

$507.60

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.

$1,015.20

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.

$131.98 with Partners vs $964.44 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 $131.98 ↓ -74%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $132.99 ↓ -74%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $134.31 ↓ -74%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $135.53 ↓ -73%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $135.53 ↓ -73%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $135.53 ↓ -73%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $136.04 ↓ -73%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $136.85 ↓ -73%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $139.59 ↓ -73%
Alliance Behavioral Health $157.05 ↓ -69%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $162.33 ↓ -68%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $217.76 ↓ -57%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $269.03 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $286.59 ↓ -44%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $302.63 ↓ -40%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $368.52 ↓ -27%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $388.97 ↓ -23%
Humana Medicare Advantage $396.75 ↓ -22%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $402.58 ↓ -21%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $403.03 ↓ -21%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $403.69 ↓ -20%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $408.11 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $413.19 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $439.58 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $448.72 ↓ -12%
Aetna Broad Network $464.96 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $481.20 ↓ -5%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $486.21 ↓ -4%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $525.87 ↑ +4%
MedCost Ultra $548.21 ↑ +8%
Magellan Behavioral Health $609.12 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $619.27 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $659.88 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $659.88 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $659.88 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $685.26 ↑ +35%
Healthgram Commercial $812.16 ↑ +60%
ChoiceCare Commercial $862.92 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $862.92 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $913.68 ↑ +80%
Provider Select Commercial $913.68 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $913.68 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $964.44 ↑ +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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Removal of implant deep at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $507.60 $151.87 – $964.44
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $507.60 $192.89 – $893.38
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $507.60 $124.57 – $964.44
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $507.60 $142.13 – $964.44
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $507.60 $114.51 – $964.44
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $507.60 $182.43 – $933.98
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $507.60 $101.52 – $933.98
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $507.60 $121.82 – $974.59

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