Ghs removal intranasal foreign body 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

$128.10

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.

$256.20

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.

$35.87 with Partners vs $243.39 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
Partners Managed Medicaid $35.87 ↓ -72%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $36.15 ↓ -72%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $36.84 ↓ -71%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $36.84 ↓ -71%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $36.84 ↓ -71%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $37.20 ↓ -71%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $37.94 ↓ -70%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $38.02 ↓ -70%
Alliance Behavioral Health $42.89 ↓ -67%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $46.27 ↓ -64%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $53.62 ↓ -58%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $59.80 ↓ -53%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $67.89 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $78.68 ↓ -39%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $81.83 ↓ -36%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $82.75 ↓ -35%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $93.00 ↓ -27%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $94.28 ↓ -26%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $110.89 ↓ -13%
Cigna Commercial NB $110.93 ↓ -13%
Humana Medicare Advantage $113.11 ↓ -12%
Employers Health Network Commercial $113.24 ↓ -12%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $114.77 ↓ -10%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $115.09 ↓ -10%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $119.13 ↓ -7%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $128.10 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $132.71 ↑ +4%
Aetna Broad Network $134.25 ↑ +5%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $136.81 ↑ +7%
MedCost Ultra $142.96 ↑ +12%
Magellan Behavioral Health $153.72 ↑ +20%
GMMI Commercial $166.53 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $166.53 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $169.86 ↑ +33%
Cigna Commercial SAR $172.94 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $184.46 ↑ +44%
Aetna First Health Commercial $197.27 ↑ +54%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $204.96 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $204.96 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $204.96 ↑ +60%
ChoiceCare Commercial $210.08 ↑ +64%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $217.77 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $217.77 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $230.58 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $235.70 ↑ +84%
Multiplan Commercial $243.39 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Ghs removal intranasal foreign body at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $128.10 $38.33 – $243.39
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $128.10 $47.91 – $225.46
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $128.10 $31.44 – $243.39
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $128.10 $28.90 – $243.39
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $128.10 $46.04 – $235.70
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $128.10 $25.62 – $235.70
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $128.10 $30.74 – $245.95
Atrium Health Union Monroe $128.10 $33.31 – $243.39

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