Ko elastic w/joints pre ots 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

$105.72

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.

$211.43

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.

$12.11 with Partners vs $121.17 with United Healthcare — 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 $12.11 ↓ -89%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $12.21 ↓ -88%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $12.44 ↓ -88%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $12.44 ↓ -88%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $12.44 ↓ -88%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $12.56 ↓ -88%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $12.82 ↓ -88%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $12.84 ↓ -88%
Alliance Behavioral Health $14.49 ↓ -86%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $15.63 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $18.11 ↓ -83%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $20.20 ↓ -81%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $22.93 ↓ -78%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $26.57 ↓ -75%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $27.64 ↓ -74%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $31.41 ↓ -70%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $31.84 ↓ -70%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $34.79 ↓ -67%
Cigna Commercial NB $37.47 ↓ -65%
Employers Health Network Commercial $38.25 ↓ -64%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $39.28 ↓ -63%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $40.24 ↓ -62%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $43.27 ↓ -59%
Aetna Broad Network $45.34 ↓ -57%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $46.21 ↓ -56%
MedCost Ultra $48.28 ↓ -54%
Magellan Behavioral Health $51.92 ↓ -51%
GMMI Commercial $56.24 ↓ -47%
Quik Trip Commercial $56.24 ↓ -47%
MedCost PPO $57.37 ↓ -46%
Cigna Commercial SAR $58.41 ↓ -45%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $62.30 ↓ -41%
Aetna First Health Commercial $66.63 ↓ -37%
Cigna Behavioral Health $69.22 ↓ -35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $69.22 ↓ -35%
Healthgram Commercial $69.22 ↓ -35%
ChoiceCare Commercial $70.95 ↓ -33%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $73.55 ↓ -30%
First Health Commercial $73.55 ↓ -30%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $77.88 ↓ -26%
Beechstreet Commercial $79.61 ↓ -25%
Multiplan Commercial $82.20 ↓ -22%
Humana Medicare Advantage $117.36 ↑ +11%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $119.09 ↑ +13%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $120.81 ↑ +14%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $121.17 ↑ +15%
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital

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