Cutter lead 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

$927.50

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.

$1,855.00

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.

$2.30 with Partners vs $15.60 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
Partners Managed Medicaid $2.30 ↓ -100%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $2.32 ↓ -100%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $2.36 ↓ -100%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $2.36 ↓ -100%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $2.36 ↓ -100%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $2.38 ↓ -100%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $2.43 ↓ -100%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $2.44 ↓ -100%
Alliance Behavioral Health $2.75 ↓ -100%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $3.44 ↓ -100%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $4.35 ↓ -100%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $5.10 ↓ -99%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $5.11 ↓ -99%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $5.24 ↓ -99%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $5.96 ↓ -99%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $6.04 ↓ -99%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $6.60 ↓ -99%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $6.73 ↓ -99%
Cigna Commercial NB $7.11 ↓ -99%
Employers Health Network Commercial $7.26 ↓ -99%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $7.64 ↓ -99%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $8.21 ↓ -99%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $8.51 ↓ -99%
Aetna Broad Network $8.60 ↓ -99%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $8.77 ↓ -99%
MedCost Ultra $9.16 ↓ -99%
Magellan Behavioral Health $9.85 ↓ -99%
GMMI Commercial $10.67 ↓ -99%
Quik Trip Commercial $10.67 ↓ -99%
MedCost PPO $10.89 ↓ -99%
Cigna Commercial SAR $11.08 ↓ -99%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $11.82 ↓ -99%
Aetna First Health Commercial $12.64 ↓ -99%
Cigna Behavioral Health $13.14 ↓ -99%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $13.14 ↓ -99%
Healthgram Commercial $13.14 ↓ -99%
ChoiceCare Commercial $13.46 ↓ -99%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $13.96 ↓ -98%
First Health Commercial $13.96 ↓ -98%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $14.78 ↓ -98%
Beechstreet Commercial $15.11 ↓ -98%
Multiplan Commercial $15.60 ↓ -98%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage not published by hospital
Aetna Medicare Advantage not published by hospital
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital
Humana Medicare Advantage not published by hospital
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital

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