Tc-99m mebrofenin 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

$169.53

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.

$339.05

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.

$23.00 with Partners vs $156.04 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 $23.00 ↓ -86%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $23.18 ↓ -86%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $23.62 ↓ -86%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $23.62 ↓ -86%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $23.62 ↓ -86%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $23.85 ↓ -86%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $24.33 ↓ -86%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $24.37 ↓ -86%
Alliance Behavioral Health $27.50 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $34.38 ↓ -80%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $43.53 ↓ -74%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $50.38 ↓ -70%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $50.38 ↓ -70%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $50.38 ↓ -70%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $52.46 ↓ -69%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $59.62 ↓ -65%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $60.44 ↓ -64%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $63.06 ↓ -63%
Humana Medicare Advantage $64.32 ↓ -62%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $65.27 ↓ -61%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $65.45 ↓ -61%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $66.03 ↓ -61%
Cigna Commercial NB $71.12 ↓ -58%
Employers Health Network Commercial $72.60 ↓ -57%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $76.38 ↓ -55%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $82.13 ↓ -52%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $85.08 ↓ -50%
Aetna Broad Network $86.07 ↓ -49%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $87.71 ↓ -48%
MedCost Ultra $91.65 ↓ -46%
Magellan Behavioral Health $98.55 ↓ -42%
Quik Trip Commercial $106.76 ↓ -37%
GMMI Commercial $106.76 ↓ -37%
MedCost PPO $108.90 ↓ -36%
Cigna Commercial SAR $110.87 ↓ -35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $118.26 ↓ -30%
Aetna First Health Commercial $126.47 ↓ -25%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $131.40 ↓ -22%
Healthgram Commercial $131.40 ↓ -22%
Cigna Behavioral Health $131.40 ↓ -22%
ChoiceCare Commercial $134.69 ↓ -21%
First Health Commercial $139.61 ↓ -18%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $139.61 ↓ -18%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $147.83 ↓ -13%
Beechstreet Commercial $151.11 ↓ -11%
Multiplan Commercial $156.04 ↓ -8%
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital

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Tc-99m mebrofenin at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $169.53 $24.57 – $156.04
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $169.53 $31.21 – $164.25
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $169.53 $20.15 – $156.04
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $169.53 $18.53 – $156.04
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $169.53 $35.82 – $151.11
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $169.53 $16.43 – $151.11
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $169.53 $19.71 – $157.68
Atrium Health Union Monroe $169.53 $21.35 – $156.04

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