Insert swan-ganz cath 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

$1,855.90

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.

$3,711.80

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.

$80.63 with Cigna Healthspring vs $3,526.21 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 $80.63 ↓ -96%
Humana Medicare Advantage $82.24 ↓ -96%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $83.45 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $83.68 ↓ -95%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $91.85 ↓ -95%
Partners Managed Medicaid $92.77 ↓ -95%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $92.77 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $92.77 ↓ -95%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $92.77 ↓ -95%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $92.77 ↓ -95%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $92.77 ↓ -95%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $92.77 ↓ -95%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $93.69 ↓ -95%
Alliance Behavioral Health $621.36 ↓ -67%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $983.63 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $1,153.63 ↓ -38%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $1,155.48 ↓ -38%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $1,185.55 ↓ -36%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $1,347.38 ↓ -27%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $1,365.94 ↓ -26%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $1,492.14 ↓ -20%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $1,520.35 ↓ -18%
Cigna Commercial NB $1,607.21 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $1,640.62 ↓ -12%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $1,725.99 ↓ -7%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $1,855.90 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $1,922.71 ↑ +4%
Aetna Broad Network $1,944.98 ↑ +5%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $1,982.10 ↑ +7%
MedCost Ultra $2,071.18 ↑ +12%
Magellan Behavioral Health $2,227.08 ↑ +20%
Quik Trip Commercial $2,412.67 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $2,412.67 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $2,460.92 ↑ +33%
Cigna Commercial SAR $2,505.47 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $2,672.50 ↑ +44%
Aetna First Health Commercial $2,858.09 ↑ +54%
Cigna Behavioral Health $2,969.44 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $2,969.44 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $2,969.44 ↑ +60%
ChoiceCare Commercial $3,043.68 ↑ +64%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $3,155.03 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $3,155.03 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $3,340.62 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $3,414.86 ↑ +84%
Multiplan Commercial $3,526.21 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Insert swan-ganz cath at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $1,855.90 $80.63 – $3,526.21
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $1,855.90 $80.63 – $3,266.38
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $1,855.90 $80.63 – $3,526.21
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $1,855.90 $80.63 – $3,526.21
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $1,855.90 $80.63 – $3,414.86
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $1,855.90 $80.63 – $3,414.86
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $1,855.90 $80.63 – $3,563.33
Atrium Health Union Monroe $1,855.90 $80.63 – $3,526.21

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