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CT Angiogram of the Chest (for blood clot) 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

$2,094.23

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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$4,188.45

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.

$79.94 with Trillium vs $3,979.03 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 $79.94 ↓ -96%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $80.49 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $80.74 ↓ -96%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $80.74 ↓ -96%
Partners Managed Medicaid $80.74 ↓ -96%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $80.74 ↓ -96%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $80.74 ↓ -96%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $80.74 ↓ -96%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $80.74 ↓ -96%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $81.54 ↓ -96%
Humana Medicare Advantage $82.10 ↓ -96%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $83.31 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $83.54 ↓ -96%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $331.12 ↓ -84%
Aetna Broad Network $365.32 ↓ -83%
MedCost Ultra $482.44 ↓ -77%
MedCost PPO $482.44 ↓ -77%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $675.45 ↓ -68%
Alliance Behavioral Health $701.15 ↓ -67%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $941.56 ↓ -55%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $944.91 ↓ -55%
ChoiceCare Commercial $1,001.69 ↓ -52%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $1,023.10 ↓ -51%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $1,109.94 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $1,243.13 ↓ -41%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $1,337.79 ↓ -36%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $1,520.41 ↓ -27%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $1,541.35 ↓ -26%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $1,683.76 ↓ -20%
Cigna Commercial NB $1,813.60 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $1,851.29 ↓ -12%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $2,094.23 ↑ +0%
Magellan Behavioral Health $2,513.07 ↑ +20%
Quik Trip Commercial $2,722.49 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $2,722.49 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $2,827.20 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $3,015.68 ↑ +44%
Aetna First Health Commercial $3,225.11 ↑ +54%
Cigna Behavioral Health $3,350.76 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $3,350.76 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $3,350.76 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $3,560.18 ↑ +70%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $3,560.18 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $3,769.61 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $3,853.37 ↑ +84%
Multiplan Commercial $3,979.03 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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CT Angiogram of the Chest (for blood clot) at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $2,094.23 $79.94 – $3,979.03
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $2,094.23 $80.49 – $3,685.84
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $2,094.23 $79.94 – $3,979.03
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $2,094.23 $79.94 – $3,979.03
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $2,094.23 $79.94 – $3,853.37
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $2,094.23 $79.94 – $3,853.37
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $2,094.23 $79.94 – $4,020.91
Atrium Health Union Monroe $2,094.23 $79.94 – $3,979.03

All North-carolina hospitals for this procedure →