Assay of salicylate 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

$150.55

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.

$301.10

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.

$19.01 with Humana vs $286.05 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
Humana Medicare Advantage $19.01 ↓ -87%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $19.29 ↓ -87%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $19.57 ↓ -87%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $19.63 ↓ -87%
Partners Managed Medicaid $42.15 ↓ -72%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $42.49 ↓ -72%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $43.30 ↓ -71%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $43.30 ↓ -71%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $43.30 ↓ -71%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $43.72 ↓ -71%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $44.59 ↓ -70%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $44.68 ↓ -70%
Alliance Behavioral Health $50.40 ↓ -67%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $63.02 ↓ -58%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $79.79 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $93.58 ↓ -38%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $93.73 ↓ -38%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $96.17 ↓ -36%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $109.30 ↓ -27%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $110.80 ↓ -26%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $121.04 ↓ -20%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $123.33 ↓ -18%
Cigna Commercial NB $130.38 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $133.09 ↓ -12%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $140.01 ↓ -7%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $150.55 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $155.97 ↑ +4%
Aetna Broad Network $157.78 ↑ +5%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $160.79 ↑ +7%
MedCost Ultra $168.01 ↑ +12%
Magellan Behavioral Health $180.66 ↑ +20%
Quik Trip Commercial $195.72 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $195.72 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $199.63 ↑ +33%
Cigna Commercial SAR $203.24 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $216.79 ↑ +44%
Aetna First Health Commercial $231.85 ↑ +54%
Cigna Behavioral Health $240.88 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $240.88 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $240.88 ↑ +60%
ChoiceCare Commercial $246.90 ↑ +64%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $255.94 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $255.94 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $270.99 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $277.01 ↑ +84%
Multiplan Commercial $286.05 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Assay of salicylate at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $150.55 $19.01 – $286.05
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $150.55 $57.21 – $301.10
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $150.55 $19.01 – $286.05
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $150.55 $19.01 – $286.05
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $150.55 $17.15 – $277.01
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $150.55 $19.01 – $277.01
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $150.55 $19.01 – $289.06
Atrium Health Union Monroe $150.55 $19.01 – $286.05

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