Carbon dioxide 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

$72.00

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.

$144.00

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.

$4.98 with Humana vs $136.80 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 $4.98 ↓ -93%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $5.05 ↓ -93%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $5.12 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $5.14 ↓ -93%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $6.03 ↓ -92%
Partners Managed Medicaid $6.09 ↓ -92%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $6.09 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $6.09 ↓ -92%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $6.09 ↓ -92%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $6.09 ↓ -92%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $6.09 ↓ -92%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $6.09 ↓ -92%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $6.15 ↓ -91%
Alliance Behavioral Health $24.11 ↓ -67%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $38.16 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $44.76 ↓ -38%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $44.83 ↓ -38%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $45.99 ↓ -36%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $52.27 ↓ -27%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $52.99 ↓ -26%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $57.89 ↓ -20%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $58.98 ↓ -18%
Cigna Commercial NB $62.35 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $63.65 ↓ -12%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $66.96 ↓ -7%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $72.00 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $74.59 ↑ +4%
Aetna Broad Network $75.46 ↑ +5%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $76.90 ↑ +7%
MedCost Ultra $80.35 ↑ +12%
Magellan Behavioral Health $86.40 ↑ +20%
Quik Trip Commercial $93.60 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $93.60 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $95.47 ↑ +33%
Cigna Commercial SAR $97.20 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $103.68 ↑ +44%
Aetna First Health Commercial $110.88 ↑ +54%
Cigna Behavioral Health $115.20 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $115.20 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $115.20 ↑ +60%
ChoiceCare Commercial $118.08 ↑ +64%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $122.40 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $122.40 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $129.60 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $132.48 ↑ +84%
Multiplan Commercial $136.80 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Carbon dioxide at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $72.00 $4.98 – $136.80
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $72.00 $6.09 – $126.72
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $72.00 $4.98 – $136.80
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $72.00 $4.98 – $136.80
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $72.00 $4.98 – $132.48
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $72.00 $4.98 – $132.48
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $72.00 $4.98 – $138.24
Atrium Health Union Monroe $72.00 $4.98 – $136.80

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