Methylphenidate 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

$13.53

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.

$27.05

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.

$3.79 with Partners vs $25.70 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 $3.79 ↓ -72%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $3.82 ↓ -72%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $3.89 ↓ -71%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $3.89 ↓ -71%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $3.89 ↓ -71%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $3.93 ↓ -71%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $4.01 ↓ -70%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $4.01 ↓ -70%
Alliance Behavioral Health $4.53 ↓ -67%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $5.66 ↓ -58%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $7.17 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $8.41 ↓ -38%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $8.42 ↓ -38%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $8.64 ↓ -36%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $9.82 ↓ -27%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $9.95 ↓ -26%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $10.87 ↓ -20%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $11.08 ↓ -18%
Cigna Commercial NB $11.71 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $11.96 ↓ -12%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $12.58 ↓ -7%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $13.53 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $14.01 ↑ +4%
Aetna Broad Network $14.17 ↑ +5%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $14.44 ↑ +7%
MedCost Ultra $15.09 ↑ +12%
Magellan Behavioral Health $16.23 ↑ +20%
GMMI Commercial $17.58 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $17.58 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $17.93 ↑ +33%
Cigna Commercial SAR $18.26 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $19.48 ↑ +44%
Aetna First Health Commercial $20.83 ↑ +54%
Cigna Behavioral Health $21.64 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $21.64 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $21.64 ↑ +60%
ChoiceCare Commercial $22.18 ↑ +64%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $22.99 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $22.99 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $24.35 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $24.89 ↑ +84%
Multiplan Commercial $25.70 ↑ +90%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage not published by hospital
Aetna Medicare Advantage not published by hospital
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital
Humana Medicare Advantage not published by hospital
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital

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Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $13.53 $4.05 – $25.70
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $13.53 $5.14 – $27.05
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $13.53 $3.32 – $25.70
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $13.53 $3.05 – $25.70
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $13.53 $5.90 – $24.89
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $13.53 $2.71 – $24.89
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $13.53 $3.25 – $25.97
Atrium Health Union Monroe $13.53 $3.52 – $25.70

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