Embryo hatching 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

$455.05

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.

$910.10

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.

$127.41 with Partners vs $864.60 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 $127.41 ↓ -72%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $128.42 ↓ -72%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $130.87 ↓ -71%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $130.87 ↓ -71%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $130.87 ↓ -71%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $132.15 ↓ -71%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $134.79 ↓ -70%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $135.06 ↓ -70%
Alliance Behavioral Health $152.35 ↓ -67%
Humana Medicare Advantage $164.13 ↓ -64%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $166.55 ↓ -63%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $168.96 ↓ -63%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $169.46 ↓ -63%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $190.48 ↓ -58%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $241.18 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $282.86 ↓ -38%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $283.31 ↓ -38%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $290.69 ↓ -36%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $330.37 ↓ -27%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $334.92 ↓ -26%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $365.86 ↓ -20%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $372.78 ↓ -18%
Cigna Commercial NB $394.07 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $402.26 ↓ -12%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $423.20 ↓ -7%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $455.05 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $471.43 ↑ +4%
Aetna Broad Network $476.89 ↑ +5%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $485.99 ↑ +7%
MedCost Ultra $507.84 ↑ +12%
Magellan Behavioral Health $546.06 ↑ +20%
Quik Trip Commercial $591.57 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $591.57 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $603.40 ↑ +33%
Cigna Commercial SAR $614.32 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $655.27 ↑ +44%
Aetna First Health Commercial $700.78 ↑ +54%
Cigna Behavioral Health $728.08 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $728.08 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $728.08 ↑ +60%
ChoiceCare Commercial $746.28 ↑ +64%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $773.59 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $773.59 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $819.09 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $837.29 ↑ +84%
Multiplan Commercial $864.60 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Embryo hatching at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $455.05 $136.15 – $864.60
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $455.05 $172.92 – $910.10
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $455.05 $111.67 – $864.60
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $455.05 $102.66 – $864.60
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $455.05 $166.24 – $837.29
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $455.05 $91.01 – $837.29
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $455.05 $109.21 – $873.70
Atrium Health Union Monroe $455.05 $118.31 – $864.60

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