Beta-2 microglobulin 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

$104.30

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.

$208.60

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.

$16.50 with Humana vs $198.17 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 $16.50 ↓ -84%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $16.75 ↓ -84%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $16.99 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $17.04 ↓ -84%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $19.96 ↓ -81%
Partners Managed Medicaid $20.16 ↓ -81%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $20.16 ↓ -81%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $20.16 ↓ -81%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $20.16 ↓ -81%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $20.16 ↓ -81%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $20.16 ↓ -81%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $20.16 ↓ -81%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $20.36 ↓ -80%
Alliance Behavioral Health $34.92 ↓ -67%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $55.28 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $64.83 ↓ -38%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $64.94 ↓ -38%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $66.63 ↓ -36%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $75.72 ↓ -27%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $76.76 ↓ -26%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $83.86 ↓ -20%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $85.44 ↓ -18%
Cigna Commercial NB $90.32 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $92.20 ↓ -12%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $97.00 ↓ -7%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $104.30 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $108.05 ↑ +4%
Aetna Broad Network $109.31 ↑ +5%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $111.39 ↑ +7%
MedCost Ultra $116.40 ↑ +12%
Magellan Behavioral Health $125.16 ↑ +20%
Quik Trip Commercial $135.59 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $135.59 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $138.30 ↑ +33%
Cigna Commercial SAR $140.81 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $150.19 ↑ +44%
Aetna First Health Commercial $160.62 ↑ +54%
Cigna Behavioral Health $166.88 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $166.88 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $166.88 ↑ +60%
ChoiceCare Commercial $171.05 ↑ +64%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $177.31 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $177.31 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $187.74 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $191.91 ↑ +84%
Multiplan Commercial $198.17 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Beta-2 microglobulin at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $104.30 $16.50 – $198.17
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $104.30 $20.16 – $183.57
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $104.30 $16.50 – $198.17
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $104.30 $16.50 – $198.17
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $104.30 $16.50 – $191.91
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $104.30 $16.50 – $191.91
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $104.30 $16.50 – $200.26
Atrium Health Union Monroe $104.30 $16.50 – $198.17

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