Str markers specimen anal at Atrium Health Union
600 Hospital Dr, Monroe, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1396790325
$1,724.40
Cash price 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.
$3,448.80
Gross charge 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.
$237.73 with Humana vs $3,276.36 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.
Full explanation →
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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.
Full explanation →Payer ?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. Full explanation → |
Plan ?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. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $237.73 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $241.23 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna Healthspring | Medicare Advantage | $244.72 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $245.45 | ↓ -86% |
| Ortho Carolina | Commercial | $291.34 | ↓ -83% |
| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $448.34 | ↓ -74% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $451.79 | ↓ -74% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $456.28 | ↓ -74% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $460.41 | ↓ -73% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $460.41 | ↓ -73% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $460.41 | ↓ -73% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $462.14 | ↓ -73% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $464.90 | ↓ -73% |
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $474.21 | ↓ -73% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $533.53 | ↓ -69% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $837.37 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $913.93 | ↓ -47% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $974.63 | ↓ -43% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $1,028.09 | ↓ -40% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $1,251.91 | ↓ -27% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $1,282.61 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $1,369.17 | ↓ -21% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $1,386.42 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial | $1,403.66 | ↓ -19% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $1,493.33 | ↓ -13% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $1,524.37 | ↓ -12% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $1,579.55 | ↓ -8% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $1,634.73 | ↓ -5% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $1,786.48 | ↑ +4% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $1,862.35 | ↑ +8% |
| Magellan | Behavioral Health | $2,069.28 | ↑ +20% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $2,103.77 | ↑ +22% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $2,241.72 | ↑ +30% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $2,241.72 | ↑ +30% |
| MedCost | PPO | $2,241.72 | ↑ +30% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $2,327.94 | ↑ +35% |
| Healthgram | Commercial | $2,759.04 | ↑ +60% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $2,931.48 | ↑ +70% |
| First Health | Commercial | $2,931.48 | ↑ +70% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $3,103.92 | ↑ +80% |
| Provider Select | Commercial | $3,103.92 | ↑ +80% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $3,103.92 | ↑ +80% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $3,276.36 | ↑ +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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Str markers specimen anal at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $1,724.40 | $237.73 – $3,276.36 |
| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $1,724.40 | $655.27 – $3,448.80 |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Concord | $1,724.40 | $237.73 – $3,276.36 |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Shelby | $1,724.40 | $237.73 – $3,276.36 |
| Atrium Health Lincoln | Lincolnton | $1,724.40 | $237.73 – $3,276.36 |
| Atrium Health Mercy | Charlotte | $1,724.40 | $237.73 – $3,172.90 |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | $1,724.40 | $237.73 – $3,172.90 |
| Atrium Health Stanly | Albermarle | $1,724.40 | $237.73 – $3,310.85 |