Adjustment gastric band at Atrium Health Cleveland

201 E Grover St, Shelby, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1669348991

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Dec 1, 2025 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$19.10

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.

$38.20

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.

$5.35 with Partners vs $36.29 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 $5.35 ↓ -72%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $5.39 ↓ -72%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $5.49 ↓ -71%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $5.49 ↓ -71%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $5.49 ↓ -71%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $5.55 ↓ -71%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $5.66 ↓ -70%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $5.67 ↓ -70%
Alliance Behavioral Health $6.39 ↓ -67%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $6.90 ↓ -64%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $8.00 ↓ -58%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $8.92 ↓ -53%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $10.12 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $11.73 ↓ -39%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $12.20 ↓ -36%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $13.87 ↓ -27%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $14.06 ↓ -26%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $15.36 ↓ -20%
Cigna Commercial NB $16.54 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $16.88 ↓ -12%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $17.76 ↓ -7%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $19.10 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $19.79 ↑ +4%
Aetna Broad Network $20.02 ↑ +5%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $20.40 ↑ +7%
MedCost Ultra $21.32 ↑ +12%
Magellan Behavioral Health $22.92 ↑ +20%
GMMI Commercial $24.83 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $24.83 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $25.33 ↑ +33%
Cigna Commercial SAR $25.79 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $27.50 ↑ +44%
Aetna First Health Commercial $29.41 ↑ +54%
Cigna Behavioral Health $30.56 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $30.56 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $30.56 ↑ +60%
ChoiceCare Commercial $31.32 ↑ +64%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $32.47 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $32.47 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $34.38 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $35.14 ↑ +84%
Multiplan Commercial $36.29 ↑ +90%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage not published by hospital
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage not published by hospital
Aetna Medicare Advantage not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital
Humana Medicare Advantage not published by hospital
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital

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Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $19.10 $5.71 – $36.29
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $19.10 $7.26 – $38.20
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $19.10 $4.69 – $36.29
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $19.10 $4.31 – $36.29
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $19.10 $6.86 – $35.14
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $19.10 $3.82 – $35.14
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $19.10 $4.58 – $36.67
Atrium Health Union Monroe $19.10 $4.97 – $36.29

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