(both sides) smear without diff wbc count 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

$48.83

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.

$97.65

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.

$3.50 with Humana vs $92.77 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 $3.50 ↓ -93%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $3.55 ↓ -93%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $3.60 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $3.61 ↓ -93%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $4.25 ↓ -91%
Partners Managed Medicaid $4.29 ↓ -91%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $4.29 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $4.29 ↓ -91%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $4.29 ↓ -91%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $4.29 ↓ -91%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $4.29 ↓ -91%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $4.29 ↓ -91%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $4.34 ↓ -91%
Alliance Behavioral Health $16.35 ↓ -67%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $25.88 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $30.35 ↓ -38%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $30.40 ↓ -38%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $31.19 ↓ -36%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $35.45 ↓ -27%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $35.94 ↓ -26%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $39.26 ↓ -20%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $40.00 ↓ -18%
Cigna Commercial NB $42.28 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $43.16 ↓ -12%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $45.41 ↓ -7%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $48.83 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $50.58 ↑ +4%
Aetna Broad Network $51.17 ↑ +5%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $52.15 ↑ +7%
MedCost Ultra $54.49 ↑ +12%
Magellan Behavioral Health $58.59 ↑ +20%
Quik Trip Commercial $63.47 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $63.47 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $64.74 ↑ +33%
Cigna Commercial SAR $65.91 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $70.31 ↑ +44%
Aetna First Health Commercial $75.19 ↑ +54%
Cigna Behavioral Health $78.12 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $78.12 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $78.12 ↑ +60%
ChoiceCare Commercial $80.07 ↑ +64%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $83.00 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $83.00 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $87.89 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $89.84 ↑ +84%
Multiplan Commercial $92.77 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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(both sides) smear without diff wbc count at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $48.83 $3.50 – $92.77
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $48.83 $4.29 – $85.93
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $48.83 $3.50 – $92.77
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $48.83 $3.50 – $92.77
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $48.83 $3.50 – $89.84
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $48.83 $3.50 – $89.84
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $48.83 $3.50 – $93.74
Atrium Health Union Monroe $48.83 $3.50 – $92.77

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