Echo exam of fetal heart 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

$765.73

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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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$1,531.45

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.

$67.23 with Trillium vs $1,454.88 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 $67.23 ↓ -91%
Partners Managed Medicaid $67.90 ↓ -91%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $67.90 ↓ -91%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $67.90 ↓ -91%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $67.90 ↓ -91%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $67.90 ↓ -91%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $67.90 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $67.90 ↓ -91%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $68.57 ↓ -91%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $73.45 ↓ -90%
Humana Medicare Advantage $74.92 ↓ -90%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $76.02 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $76.23 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $150.69 ↓ -80%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $151.18 ↓ -80%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $154.90 ↓ -80%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $159.75 ↓ -79%
ChoiceCare Commercial $159.75 ↓ -79%
Aetna Broad Network $170.90 ↓ -78%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $198.93 ↓ -74%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $213.01 ↓ -72%
MedCost Ultra $213.72 ↓ -72%
MedCost PPO $213.72 ↓ -72%
Alliance Behavioral Health $256.36 ↓ -67%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $405.83 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $489.15 ↓ -36%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $555.92 ↓ -27%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $563.57 ↓ -26%
Cigna Commercial NB $663.12 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $676.90 ↓ -12%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $765.73 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $793.29 ↑ +4%
Magellan Behavioral Health $918.87 ↑ +20%
GMMI Commercial $995.44 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $995.44 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $1,033.73 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $1,102.64 ↑ +44%
Aetna First Health Commercial $1,179.22 ↑ +54%
Cigna Behavioral Health $1,225.16 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $1,225.16 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $1,225.16 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $1,301.73 ↑ +70%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $1,301.73 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $1,378.31 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $1,408.93 ↑ +84%
Multiplan Commercial $1,454.88 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Echo exam of fetal heart at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $765.73 $67.23 – $1,454.88
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $765.73 $67.90 – $1,347.68
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $765.73 $67.23 – $1,454.88
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $765.73 $67.23 – $1,454.88
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $765.73 $67.23 – $1,408.93
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $765.73 $67.23 – $1,408.93
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $765.73 $67.23 – $1,470.19
Atrium Health Union Monroe $765.73 $67.23 – $1,454.88

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