Ghs protoporphyrins fract 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

$78.10

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.

$156.20

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.

$14.64 with Humana vs $148.39 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
Humana Medicare Advantage $14.64 ↓ -81%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $14.85 ↓ -81%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $15.07 ↓ -81%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $15.11 ↓ -81%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $17.70 ↓ -77%
Partners Managed Medicaid $17.88 ↓ -77%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $17.88 ↓ -77%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $17.88 ↓ -77%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $17.88 ↓ -77%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $17.88 ↓ -77%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $17.88 ↓ -77%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $17.88 ↓ -77%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $18.05 ↓ -77%
Alliance Behavioral Health $26.15 ↓ -67%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $41.39 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $48.55 ↓ -38%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $48.63 ↓ -38%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $49.89 ↓ -36%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $56.70 ↓ -27%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $57.48 ↓ -26%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $62.79 ↓ -20%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $63.98 ↓ -18%
Cigna Commercial NB $67.63 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $69.04 ↓ -12%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $72.63 ↓ -7%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $78.10 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $80.91 ↑ +4%
Aetna Broad Network $81.85 ↑ +5%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $83.41 ↑ +7%
MedCost Ultra $87.16 ↑ +12%
Magellan Behavioral Health $93.72 ↑ +20%
Quik Trip Commercial $101.53 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $101.53 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $103.56 ↑ +33%
Cigna Commercial SAR $105.44 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $112.46 ↑ +44%
Aetna First Health Commercial $120.27 ↑ +54%
Cigna Behavioral Health $124.96 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $124.96 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $124.96 ↑ +60%
ChoiceCare Commercial $128.08 ↑ +64%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $132.77 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $132.77 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $140.58 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $143.70 ↑ +84%
Multiplan Commercial $148.39 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Ghs protoporphyrins fract at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $78.10 $14.64 – $148.39
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $78.10 $17.88 – $137.46
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $78.10 $14.64 – $148.39
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $78.10 $14.64 – $148.39
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $78.10 $14.64 – $143.70
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $78.10 $14.64 – $143.70
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $78.10 $14.64 – $149.95
Atrium Health Union Monroe $78.10 $14.64 – $148.39

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