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Echo guidance radiotherapy 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

$410.13

Cash price

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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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$820.25

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.

$25.08 with Cigna Healthspring vs $779.24 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
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $25.08 ↓ -94%
Humana Medicare Advantage $25.58 ↓ -94%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $25.96 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $26.03 ↓ -94%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $56.33 ↓ -86%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $56.89 ↓ -86%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $56.89 ↓ -86%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $56.89 ↓ -86%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $56.89 ↓ -86%
Partners Managed Medicaid $56.89 ↓ -86%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $56.89 ↓ -86%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $56.89 ↓ -86%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $57.46 ↓ -86%
Alliance Behavioral Health $137.31 ↓ -67%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $217.37 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $254.93 ↓ -38%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $255.34 ↓ -38%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $261.99 ↓ -36%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $297.75 ↓ -27%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $301.85 ↓ -26%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $329.74 ↓ -20%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $335.97 ↓ -18%
Cigna Commercial NB $355.17 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $362.55 ↓ -12%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $381.42 ↓ -7%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $410.13 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $424.89 ↑ +4%
Aetna Broad Network $429.81 ↑ +5%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $438.01 ↑ +7%
MedCost Ultra $457.70 ↑ +12%
Magellan Behavioral Health $492.15 ↑ +20%
GMMI Commercial $533.16 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $533.16 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $543.83 ↑ +33%
Cigna Commercial SAR $553.67 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $590.58 ↑ +44%
Aetna First Health Commercial $631.59 ↑ +54%
Healthgram Commercial $656.20 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $656.20 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $656.20 ↑ +60%
ChoiceCare Commercial $672.61 ↑ +64%
First Health Commercial $697.21 ↑ +70%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $697.21 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $738.23 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $754.63 ↑ +84%
Multiplan Commercial $779.24 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Echo guidance radiotherapy at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $410.13 $25.08 – $779.24
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $410.13 $25.08 – $721.82
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $410.13 $25.08 – $779.24
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $410.13 $25.08 – $779.24
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $410.13 $25.08 – $754.63
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $410.13 $25.08 – $754.63
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $410.13 $25.08 – $787.44
Atrium Health Union Monroe $410.13 $25.08 – $779.24

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