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Liver Function Test 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

$198.50

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.

$397.00

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.

$8.33 with Humana vs $377.15 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 $8.33 ↓ -96%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $8.46 ↓ -96%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $8.58 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $8.60 ↓ -96%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $9.88 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $9.98 ↓ -95%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $9.98 ↓ -95%
Partners Managed Medicaid $9.98 ↓ -95%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $9.98 ↓ -95%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $9.98 ↓ -95%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $9.98 ↓ -95%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $9.98 ↓ -95%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $10.08 ↓ -95%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $10.12 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $10.94 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $10.94 ↓ -94%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $13.73 ↓ -93%
Aetna Broad Network $15.20 ↓ -92%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $17.07 ↓ -91%
MedCost Ultra $18.34 ↓ -91%
MedCost PPO $18.34 ↓ -91%
Alliance Behavioral Health $66.46 ↓ -67%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $105.21 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $123.39 ↓ -38%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $123.59 ↓ -38%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $126.80 ↓ -36%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $144.11 ↓ -27%
Cigna Commercial NB $171.90 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $175.47 ↓ -12%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $198.50 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $205.65 ↑ +4%
Magellan Behavioral Health $238.20 ↑ +20%
Quik Trip Commercial $258.05 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $258.05 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $267.98 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $285.84 ↑ +44%
Aetna First Health Commercial $305.69 ↑ +54%
Cigna Behavioral Health $317.60 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $317.60 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $317.60 ↑ +60%
ChoiceCare Commercial $325.54 ↑ +64%
First Health Commercial $337.45 ↑ +70%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $337.45 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $357.30 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $365.24 ↑ +84%
Multiplan Commercial $377.15 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Liver Function Test at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $198.50 $8.33 – $377.15
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $198.50 $9.88 – $349.36
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $198.50 $8.33 – $377.15
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $198.50 $8.33 – $377.15
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $198.50 $8.33 – $365.24
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $198.50 $8.33 – $365.24
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $198.50 $8.33 – $381.12
Atrium Health Union Monroe $198.50 $8.33 – $377.15

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