Pt evaluation high complexity patient/family 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

$404.15

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.

$808.30

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.

$67.46 with Trillium vs $767.89 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 $67.46 ↓ -83%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $68.13 ↓ -83%
Partners Managed Medicaid $68.13 ↓ -83%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $68.13 ↓ -83%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $68.13 ↓ -83%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $68.13 ↓ -83%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $68.13 ↓ -83%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $68.13 ↓ -83%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $68.81 ↓ -83%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $94.11 ↓ -77%
Humana Medicare Advantage $95.99 ↓ -76%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $97.40 ↓ -76%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $97.67 ↓ -76%
Alliance Behavioral Health $135.31 ↓ -67%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $214.20 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $251.22 ↓ -38%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $251.62 ↓ -38%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $258.17 ↓ -36%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $293.41 ↓ -27%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $297.45 ↓ -26%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $324.94 ↓ -20%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $331.08 ↓ -18%
Cigna Commercial NB $349.99 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $357.27 ↓ -12%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $375.86 ↓ -7%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $404.15 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $418.70 ↑ +4%
Aetna Broad Network $423.55 ↑ +5%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $431.63 ↑ +7%
MedCost Ultra $451.03 ↑ +12%
Magellan Behavioral Health $484.98 ↑ +20%
Quik Trip Commercial $525.40 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $525.40 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $535.90 ↑ +33%
Cigna Commercial SAR $545.60 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $581.98 ↑ +44%
Aetna First Health Commercial $622.39 ↑ +54%
Cigna Behavioral Health $646.64 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $646.64 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $646.64 ↑ +60%
ChoiceCare Commercial $662.81 ↑ +64%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $687.06 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $687.06 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $727.47 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $743.64 ↑ +84%
Multiplan Commercial $767.89 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Pt evaluation high complexity patient/family at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $404.15 $67.46 – $767.89
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $404.15 $68.13 – $711.30
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $404.15 $67.46 – $767.89
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $404.15 $67.46 – $767.89
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $404.15 $52.45 – $743.64
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $404.15 $67.46 – $743.64
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $404.15 $67.46 – $775.97
Atrium Health Union Monroe $404.15 $67.46 – $767.89

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