Connect omega .5mm 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

$243.50

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.

$487.00

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.

$19.07 with Partners vs $433.35 with United Healthcare — 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
Partners Managed Medicaid $19.07 ↓ -92%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $19.22 ↓ -92%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $19.59 ↓ -92%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $19.59 ↓ -92%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $19.59 ↓ -92%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $19.78 ↓ -92%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $20.18 ↓ -92%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $20.22 ↓ -92%
Alliance Behavioral Health $22.80 ↓ -91%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $24.60 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $28.51 ↓ -88%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $31.80 ↓ -87%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $36.10 ↓ -85%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $41.84 ↓ -83%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $43.51 ↓ -82%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $49.45 ↓ -80%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $50.13 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $54.76 ↓ -78%
Cigna Commercial NB $58.99 ↓ -76%
Employers Health Network Commercial $60.21 ↓ -75%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $61.85 ↓ -75%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $63.35 ↓ -74%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $68.12 ↓ -72%
Aetna Broad Network $71.38 ↓ -71%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $72.75 ↓ -70%
MedCost Ultra $76.02 ↓ -69%
Magellan Behavioral Health $81.74 ↓ -66%
GMMI Commercial $88.55 ↓ -64%
Quik Trip Commercial $88.55 ↓ -64%
MedCost PPO $90.32 ↓ -63%
Cigna Commercial SAR $91.96 ↓ -62%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $98.09 ↓ -60%
Aetna First Health Commercial $104.90 ↓ -57%
Healthgram Commercial $108.98 ↓ -55%
Cigna Behavioral Health $108.98 ↓ -55%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $108.98 ↓ -55%
ChoiceCare Commercial $111.71 ↓ -54%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $115.80 ↓ -52%
First Health Commercial $115.80 ↓ -52%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $122.61 ↓ -50%
Beechstreet Commercial $125.33 ↓ -49%
Multiplan Commercial $129.42 ↓ -47%
Humana Medicare Advantage $419.73 ↑ +72%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $425.90 ↑ +75%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $432.08 ↑ +77%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $433.35 ↑ +78%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital —
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital —

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