Photopheresis 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

$15,271.00

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.

$30,542.00

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.

$80.14 with Trillium vs $29,014.90 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
Trillium Managed Medicaid $80.14 ↓ -99%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $80.94 ↓ -99%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $80.94 ↓ -99%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $80.94 ↓ -99%
Partners Managed Medicaid $80.94 ↓ -99%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $80.94 ↓ -99%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $80.94 ↓ -99%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $80.94 ↓ -99%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $81.74 ↓ -99%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $88.59 ↓ -99%
Humana Medicare Advantage $90.36 ↓ -99%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $91.69 ↓ -99%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $91.94 ↓ -99%
Alliance Behavioral Health $5,112.73 ↓ -67%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $5,515.89 ↓ -64%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $7,128.50 ↓ -53%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $8,093.63 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $9,379.45 ↓ -39%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $9,755.11 ↓ -36%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $11,086.75 ↓ -27%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $11,239.46 ↓ -26%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $12,277.88 ↓ -20%
Cigna Commercial NB $13,224.69 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $13,499.56 ↓ -12%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $14,202.03 ↓ -7%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $15,271.00 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $15,820.76 ↑ +4%
Aetna Broad Network $16,004.01 ↑ +5%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $16,309.43 ↑ +7%
MedCost Ultra $17,042.44 ↑ +12%
Magellan Behavioral Health $18,325.20 ↑ +20%
Quik Trip Commercial $19,852.30 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $19,852.30 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $20,249.35 ↑ +33%
Cigna Commercial SAR $20,615.85 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $21,990.24 ↑ +44%
Aetna First Health Commercial $23,517.34 ↑ +54%
Healthgram Commercial $24,433.60 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $24,433.60 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $24,433.60 ↑ +60%
ChoiceCare Commercial $25,044.44 ↑ +64%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $25,960.70 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $25,960.70 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $27,487.80 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $28,098.64 ↑ +84%
Multiplan Commercial $29,014.90 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital —
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital —

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Photopheresis at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $15,271.00 $80.14 – $29,014.90
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $15,271.00 $80.94 – $26,876.96
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $15,271.00 $80.14 – $29,014.90
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $15,271.00 $80.14 – $29,014.90
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $15,271.00 $80.14 – $28,098.64
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $15,271.00 $80.14 – $28,098.64
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $15,271.00 $80.14 – $29,320.32
Atrium Health Union Monroe $15,271.00 $80.14 – $29,014.90

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