Bowel imaging 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

$803.08

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.

$1,606.15

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.

$28.41 with Trillium vs $1,525.84 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
Trillium Managed Medicaid $28.41 ↓ -96%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $28.69 ↓ -96%
Partners Managed Medicaid $28.69 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $28.69 ↓ -96%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $28.69 ↓ -96%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $28.69 ↓ -96%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $28.69 ↓ -96%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $28.69 ↓ -96%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $28.98 ↓ -96%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $29.53 ↓ -96%
Humana Medicare Advantage $30.12 ↓ -96%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $30.56 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $30.65 ↓ -96%
Alliance Behavioral Health $268.87 ↓ -67%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $425.63 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $499.19 ↓ -38%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $499.99 ↓ -38%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $513.00 ↓ -36%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $583.03 ↓ -27%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $591.06 ↓ -26%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $645.67 ↓ -20%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $657.88 ↓ -18%
Cigna Commercial NB $695.46 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $709.92 ↓ -12%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $746.86 ↓ -7%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $803.08 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $831.99 ↑ +4%
Aetna Broad Network $841.62 ↑ +5%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $857.68 ↑ +7%
MedCost Ultra $896.23 ↑ +12%
Magellan Behavioral Health $963.69 ↑ +20%
Quik Trip Commercial $1,044.00 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $1,044.00 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $1,064.88 ↑ +33%
Cigna Commercial SAR $1,084.15 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $1,156.43 ↑ +44%
Aetna First Health Commercial $1,236.74 ↑ +54%
Cigna Behavioral Health $1,284.92 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $1,284.92 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $1,284.92 ↑ +60%
ChoiceCare Commercial $1,317.04 ↑ +64%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $1,365.23 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $1,365.23 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $1,445.54 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $1,477.66 ↑ +84%
Multiplan Commercial $1,525.84 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Bowel imaging at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $803.08 $28.41 – $1,525.84
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $803.08 $28.69 – $1,413.41
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $803.08 $28.41 – $1,525.84
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $803.08 $28.41 – $1,525.84
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $803.08 $28.41 – $1,477.66
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $803.08 $28.41 – $1,477.66
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $803.08 $28.41 – $1,541.90
Atrium Health Union Monroe $803.08 $28.41 – $1,525.84

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