Team conf w/pat by hc prof 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

$102.48

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.

$204.95

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.

$28.69 with Partners vs $194.70 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 $28.69 ↓ -72%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $28.92 ↓ -72%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $29.47 ↓ -71%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $29.47 ↓ -71%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $29.47 ↓ -71%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $29.76 ↓ -71%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $30.35 ↓ -70%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $30.41 ↓ -70%
Alliance Behavioral Health $34.31 ↓ -67%
Humana Medicare Advantage $38.63 ↓ -62%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $39.19 ↓ -62%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $39.76 ↓ -61%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $39.88 ↓ -61%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $42.90 ↓ -58%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $54.31 ↓ -47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $63.70 ↓ -38%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $63.80 ↓ -38%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $65.46 ↓ -36%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $74.40 ↓ -27%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $75.42 ↓ -26%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $82.39 ↓ -20%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $83.95 ↓ -18%
Aetna Broad Network $88.37 ↓ -14%
Cigna Commercial NB $88.74 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $90.59 ↓ -12%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $95.30 ↓ -7%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $102.48 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $106.16 ↑ +4%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $109.44 ↑ +7%
MedCost Ultra $114.36 ↑ +12%
Magellan Behavioral Health $122.97 ↑ +20%
Quik Trip Commercial $133.22 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $133.22 ↑ +30%
MedCost PPO $135.88 ↑ +33%
Cigna Commercial SAR $138.34 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $147.56 ↑ +44%
Aetna First Health Commercial $157.81 ↑ +54%
Cigna Behavioral Health $163.96 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $163.96 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $163.96 ↑ +60%
ChoiceCare Commercial $168.06 ↑ +64%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $174.21 ↑ +70%
First Health Commercial $174.21 ↑ +70%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $184.46 ↑ +80%
Beechstreet Commercial $188.55 ↑ +84%
Multiplan Commercial $194.70 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Team conf w/pat by hc prof at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $102.48 $30.66 – $194.70
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $102.48 $38.94 – $204.95
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $102.48 $25.15 – $194.70
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $102.48 $23.12 – $194.70
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $102.48 $38.63 – $188.55
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $102.48 $20.50 – $188.55
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $102.48 $24.59 – $196.75
Atrium Health Union Monroe $102.48 $26.64 – $194.70

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