Drug screening tapentadol 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

$25.38

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.

$50.75

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.

$3.46 with Partners vs $23.47 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 $3.46 ↓ -86%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $3.49 ↓ -86%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $3.55 ↓ -86%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $3.55 ↓ -86%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $3.55 ↓ -86%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $3.59 ↓ -86%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $3.66 ↓ -86%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $3.67 ↓ -86%
Alliance Behavioral Health $4.13 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $5.17 ↓ -80%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $6.55 ↓ -74%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $7.68 ↓ -70%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $7.69 ↓ -70%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $7.89 ↓ -69%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $8.97 ↓ -65%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $9.09 ↓ -64%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $9.93 ↓ -61%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $10.12 ↓ -60%
Cigna Commercial NB $10.70 ↓ -58%
Employers Health Network Commercial $10.92 ↓ -57%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $11.49 ↓ -55%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $12.35 ↓ -51%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $12.79 ↓ -50%
Aetna Broad Network $12.94 ↓ -49%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $13.19 ↓ -48%
MedCost Ultra $13.78 ↓ -46%
Magellan Behavioral Health $14.82 ↓ -42%
GMMI Commercial $16.06 ↓ -37%
Quik Trip Commercial $16.06 ↓ -37%
MedCost PPO $16.38 ↓ -35%
Cigna Commercial SAR $16.67 ↓ -34%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $17.78 ↓ -30%
Aetna First Health Commercial $19.02 ↓ -25%
Cigna Behavioral Health $19.76 ↓ -22%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $19.76 ↓ -22%
Healthgram Commercial $19.76 ↓ -22%
ChoiceCare Commercial $20.25 ↓ -20%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $21.00 ↓ -17%
First Health Commercial $21.00 ↓ -17%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $22.23 ↓ -12%
Beechstreet Commercial $22.72 ↓ -10%
Multiplan Commercial $23.47 ↓ -8%
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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Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $25.38 $3.70 – $23.47
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Atrium Health Union Monroe $25.38 $3.21 – $23.47

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