Melphalan oral 2 mg 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

$1,052.00

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.

$2,104.00

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.

$272.09 with Partners vs $1,846.33 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
Partners Managed Medicaid $272.09 ↓ -74%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $274.23 ↓ -74%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $279.48 ↓ -73%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $279.48 ↓ -73%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $279.48 ↓ -73%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $282.20 ↓ -73%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $287.83 ↓ -73%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $288.42 ↓ -73%
Alliance Behavioral Health $325.34 ↓ -69%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $406.77 ↓ -61%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $515.03 ↓ -51%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $596.07 ↓ -43%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $596.07 ↓ -43%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $596.07 ↓ -43%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $620.75 ↓ -41%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $623.86 ↓ -41%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $705.49 ↓ -33%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $715.21 ↓ -32%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $781.29 ↓ -26%
Cigna Commercial NB $841.54 ↓ -20%
Employers Health Network Commercial $859.03 ↓ -18%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $903.73 ↓ -14%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $971.75 ↓ -8%
Aetna Broad Network $1,018.39 ↓ -3%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $1,037.83 ↓ -1%
MedCost Ultra $1,084.47 ↑ +3%
Magellan Behavioral Health $1,166.10 ↑ +11%
Quik Trip Commercial $1,263.28 ↑ +20%
GMMI Commercial $1,263.28 ↑ +20%
MedCost PPO $1,288.54 ↑ +22%
Cigna Commercial SAR $1,311.86 ↑ +25%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $1,399.32 ↑ +33%
Aetna First Health Commercial $1,496.50 ↑ +42%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $1,554.80 ↑ +48%
Cigna Behavioral Health $1,554.80 ↑ +48%
Healthgram Commercial $1,554.80 ↑ +48%
ChoiceCare Commercial $1,593.67 ↑ +51%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $1,651.98 ↑ +57%
First Health Commercial $1,651.98 ↑ +57%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $1,749.15 ↑ +66%
Beechstreet Commercial $1,788.02 ↑ +70%
Multiplan Commercial $1,846.33 ↑ +76%
Humana Medicare Advantage not published by hospital —
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage not published by hospital —
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage not published by hospital —
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital —
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital —
Aetna Medicare Advantage not published by hospital —

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