Ghs urine, porphyrins quant 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

$118.23

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.

$236.45

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.

$15.00 with Humana vs $224.63 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 $15.00 ↓ -87%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $15.22 ↓ -87%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $15.45 ↓ -87%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $15.49 ↓ -87%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $18.14 ↓ -85%
Partners Managed Medicaid $18.32 ↓ -85%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $18.32 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $18.32 ↓ -85%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $18.32 ↓ -85%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $18.32 ↓ -85%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $18.32 ↓ -85%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $18.32 ↓ -85%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $18.50 ↓ -84%
Alliance Behavioral Health $39.58 ↓ -67%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $62.66 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $73.49 ↓ -38%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $73.61 ↓ -38%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $75.52 ↓ -36%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $85.83 ↓ -27%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $87.01 ↓ -26%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $95.05 ↓ -20%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $96.85 ↓ -18%
Cigna Commercial NB $102.38 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $104.51 ↓ -12%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $109.95 ↓ -7%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $118.23 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $122.48 ↑ +4%
Aetna Broad Network $123.90 ↑ +5%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $126.26 ↑ +7%
MedCost Ultra $131.94 ↑ +12%
Magellan Behavioral Health $141.87 ↑ +20%
Quik Trip Commercial $153.69 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $153.69 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $156.77 ↑ +33%
Cigna Commercial SAR $159.60 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $170.24 ↑ +44%
Aetna First Health Commercial $182.07 ↑ +54%
Cigna Behavioral Health $189.16 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $189.16 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $189.16 ↑ +60%
ChoiceCare Commercial $193.89 ↑ +64%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $200.98 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $200.98 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $212.81 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $217.53 ↑ +84%
Multiplan Commercial $224.63 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Ghs urine, porphyrins quant at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $118.23 $15.00 – $224.63
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $118.23 $18.32 – $208.08
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $118.23 $15.00 – $224.63
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $118.23 $15.00 – $224.63
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $118.23 $15.00 – $217.53
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $118.23 $15.00 – $217.53
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $118.23 $15.00 – $226.99
Atrium Health Union Monroe $118.23 $15.00 – $224.63

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