Treatment inhalation continuous aerosol medication acute airway obstruction each additional hour 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

$116.63

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.

$233.25

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.

$10.18 with Trillium vs $221.59 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
Trillium Managed Medicaid $10.18 ↓ -91%
Partners Managed Medicaid $10.28 ↓ -91%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $10.28 ↓ -91%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $10.28 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $10.28 ↓ -91%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $10.28 ↓ -91%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $10.28 ↓ -91%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $10.28 ↓ -91%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $10.38 ↓ -91%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $15.19 ↓ -87%
Humana Medicare Advantage $15.49 ↓ -87%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $15.72 ↓ -87%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $15.76 ↓ -86%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $18.99 ↓ -84%
Alliance Behavioral Health $36.08 ↓ -69%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $56.63 ↓ -51%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $61.81 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $65.92 ↓ -43%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $69.53 ↓ -40%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $84.67 ↓ -27%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $86.75 ↓ -26%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $92.60 ↓ -21%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $93.77 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $94.93 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $101.00 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $103.10 ↓ -12%
Aetna Broad Network $106.83 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $110.56 ↓ -5%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $120.82 ↑ +4%
MedCost Ultra $125.96 ↑ +8%
Magellan Behavioral Health $139.95 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $142.28 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $151.61 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $151.61 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $151.61 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $157.44 ↑ +35%
Healthgram Commercial $186.60 ↑ +60%
ChoiceCare Commercial $198.26 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $198.26 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $209.93 ↑ +80%
Provider Select Commercial $209.93 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $209.93 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $221.59 ↑ +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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Treatment inhalation continuous aerosol medication acute airway obstruction each additional hour at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $116.63 $10.18 – $221.59
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $116.63 $10.28 – $205.26
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $116.63 $10.18 – $221.59
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $116.63 $10.18 – $221.59
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $116.63 $10.18 – $221.59
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $116.63 $10.18 – $214.59
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $116.63 $10.18 – $214.59
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $116.63 $10.18 – $223.92

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