Creatine kinase 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

$78.15

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.

$156.30

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.

$6.64 with Humana vs $148.49 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 $6.64 ↓ -92%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $6.74 ↓ -91%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $6.84 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $6.86 ↓ -91%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $8.03 ↓ -90%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $8.11 ↓ -90%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $8.11 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $8.11 ↓ -90%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $8.11 ↓ -90%
Partners Managed Medicaid $8.11 ↓ -90%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $8.11 ↓ -90%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $8.11 ↓ -90%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $8.19 ↓ -90%
ChoiceCare Commercial $8.20 ↓ -90%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $8.20 ↓ -90%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $10.75 ↓ -86%
Alliance Behavioral Health $26.16 ↓ -67%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $41.42 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $48.66 ↓ -38%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $49.92 ↓ -36%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $56.74 ↓ -27%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $57.52 ↓ -26%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $62.83 ↓ -20%
Cigna Commercial NB $67.68 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $69.08 ↓ -12%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $72.68 ↓ -7%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $78.15 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $80.96 ↑ +4%
Aetna Broad Network $81.90 ↑ +5%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $83.46 ↑ +7%
MedCost Ultra $87.22 ↑ +12%
Magellan Behavioral Health $93.78 ↑ +20%
Quik Trip Commercial $101.60 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $101.60 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $103.63 ↑ +33%
Cigna Commercial SAR $105.50 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $112.54 ↑ +44%
Aetna First Health Commercial $120.35 ↑ +54%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $125.04 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $125.04 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $125.04 ↑ +60%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $132.86 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $132.86 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $140.67 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $143.80 ↑ +84%
Multiplan Commercial $148.49 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Creatine kinase at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $78.15 $6.64 – $148.49
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $78.15 $8.11 – $137.54
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $78.15 $6.64 – $148.49
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $78.15 $6.64 – $148.49
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $78.15 $6.64 – $143.80
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $78.15 $6.64 – $143.80
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $78.15 $6.64 – $150.05
Atrium Health Union Monroe $78.15 $6.64 – $148.49

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