Irradiation of blood product each unit reference 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

$140.80

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.

$281.60

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.

$37.59 with Humana vs $267.52 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 $37.59 ↓ -73%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $38.15 ↓ -73%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $38.70 ↓ -73%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $38.81 ↓ -72%
Partners Managed Medicaid $39.42 ↓ -72%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $39.73 ↓ -72%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $40.49 ↓ -71%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $40.49 ↓ -71%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $40.49 ↓ -71%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $40.89 ↓ -71%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $41.70 ↓ -70%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $41.79 ↓ -70%
Alliance Behavioral Health $47.14 ↓ -67%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $58.94 ↓ -58%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $74.62 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $87.52 ↓ -38%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $87.66 ↓ -38%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $89.94 ↓ -36%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $102.22 ↓ -27%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $103.63 ↓ -26%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $113.20 ↓ -20%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $115.34 ↓ -18%
Cigna Commercial NB $121.93 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $124.47 ↓ -12%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $130.94 ↓ -7%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $140.80 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $145.87 ↑ +4%
Aetna Broad Network $147.56 ↑ +5%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $150.37 ↑ +7%
MedCost Ultra $157.13 ↑ +12%
Magellan Behavioral Health $168.96 ↑ +20%
Quik Trip Commercial $183.04 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $183.04 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $186.70 ↑ +33%
Cigna Commercial SAR $190.08 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $202.75 ↑ +44%
Aetna First Health Commercial $216.83 ↑ +54%
Cigna Behavioral Health $225.28 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $225.28 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $225.28 ↑ +60%
ChoiceCare Commercial $230.91 ↑ +64%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $239.36 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $239.36 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $253.44 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $259.07 ↑ +84%
Multiplan Commercial $267.52 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Irradiation of blood product each unit reference at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $140.80 $38.08 – $267.52
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $140.80 $53.50 – $281.60
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $140.80 $34.55 – $267.52
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $140.80 $31.76 – $267.52
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $140.80 $32.42 – $259.07
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $140.80 $28.16 – $259.07
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $140.80 $33.79 – $270.34
Atrium Health Union Monroe $140.80 $36.61 – $267.52

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