Aquatic exercise - group charge 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

$138.00

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.

$276.00

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.

$16.78 with Cigna Healthspring vs $257.36 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.

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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
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $16.78 ↓ -88%
Humana Medicare Advantage $17.12 ↓ -88%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $17.37 ↓ -87%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $17.42 ↓ -87%
Partners Managed Medicaid $37.93 ↓ -73%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $38.22 ↓ -72%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $38.96 ↓ -72%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $38.96 ↓ -72%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $38.96 ↓ -72%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $39.33 ↓ -72%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $40.12 ↓ -71%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $40.20 ↓ -71%
Alliance Behavioral Health $45.35 ↓ -67%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $56.70 ↓ -59%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $71.79 ↓ -48%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $84.20 ↓ -39%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $84.33 ↓ -39%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $86.53 ↓ -37%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $98.34 ↓ -29%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $99.69 ↓ -28%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $108.90 ↓ -21%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $110.96 ↓ -20%
Cigna Commercial NB $117.30 ↓ -15%
Employers Health Network Commercial $119.74 ↓ -13%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $125.97 ↓ -9%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $135.45 ↓ -2%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $140.33 ↑ +2%
Aetna Broad Network $141.95 ↑ +3%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $144.66 ↑ +5%
MedCost Ultra $151.16 ↑ +10%
Magellan Behavioral Health $162.54 ↑ +18%
Quik Trip Commercial $176.09 ↑ +28%
GMMI Commercial $176.09 ↑ +28%
MedCost PPO $179.61 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $182.86 ↑ +33%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $195.05 ↑ +41%
Aetna First Health Commercial $208.59 ↑ +51%
Cigna Behavioral Health $216.72 ↑ +57%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $216.72 ↑ +57%
Healthgram Commercial $216.72 ↑ +57%
ChoiceCare Commercial $222.14 ↑ +61%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $230.27 ↑ +67%
First Health Commercial $230.27 ↑ +67%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $243.81 ↑ +77%
Beechstreet Commercial $249.23 ↑ +81%
Multiplan Commercial $257.36 ↑ +86%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Aquatic exercise - group charge at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $138.00 $16.78 – $257.36
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $138.00 $16.78 – $270.90
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $138.00 $16.78 – $257.36
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $138.00 $16.78 – $257.36
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $138.00 $16.78 – $249.23
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $138.00 $16.78 – $249.23
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $138.00 $16.78 – $260.06
Atrium Health Union Monroe $138.00 $16.78 – $257.36

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