Thoracotomy with cardiac massage at Atrium Health Cleveland
201 E Grover St, Shelby, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1669348991
$1,052.00
Cash price 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.
$2,104.00
Gross charge 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.
$294.56 with Partners vs $1,998.80 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.
Full explanation →
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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.
Full explanation →Payer ?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. Full explanation → |
Plan ?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. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $294.56 | ↓ -72% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $296.87 | ↓ -72% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $302.56 | ↓ -71% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $302.56 | ↓ -71% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $302.56 | ↓ -71% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $305.50 | ↓ -71% |
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $311.60 | ↓ -70% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $312.23 | ↓ -70% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $352.21 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $440.37 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $557.56 | ↓ -47% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $672.02 | ↓ -36% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $679.59 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna Healthspring | Medicare Advantage | $724.30 | ↓ -31% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $738.78 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $749.65 | ↓ -29% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $751.71 | ↓ -29% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $763.75 | ↓ -27% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $774.27 | ↓ -26% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $911.03 | ↓ -13% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $929.97 | ↓ -12% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $975.84 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial | $978.36 | ↓ -7% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $1,052.00 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $1,102.50 | ↑ +5% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $1,123.54 | ↑ +7% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $1,174.03 | ↑ +12% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $1,188.76 | ↑ +13% |
| Magellan | Behavioral Health | $1,262.40 | ↑ +20% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $1,284.07 | ↑ +22% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $1,367.60 | ↑ +30% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $1,367.60 | ↑ +30% |
| MedCost | PPO | $1,394.95 | ↑ +33% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $1,420.20 | ↑ +35% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Employee Plan | $1,514.88 | ↑ +44% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $1,620.08 | ↑ +54% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $1,644.28 | ↑ +56% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Commercial | $1,683.20 | ↑ +60% |
| Cigna | Behavioral Health | $1,683.20 | ↑ +60% |
| Healthgram | Commercial | $1,683.20 | ↑ +60% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $1,725.28 | ↑ +64% |
| Lifesynch Community Choice Care | Behavioral Health | $1,788.40 | ↑ +70% |
| First Health | Commercial | $1,788.40 | ↑ +70% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $1,893.60 | ↑ +80% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $1,935.68 | ↑ +84% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $1,998.80 | ↑ +90% |
| Broughton Cardinal Partners | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan H | not published by hospital | — |
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Thoracotomy with cardiac massage at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $1,052.00 | $314.76 – $1,998.80 |
| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $1,052.00 | $393.45 – $1,851.52 |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Concord | $1,052.00 | $258.16 – $1,998.80 |
| Atrium Health Lincoln | Lincolnton | $1,052.00 | $237.33 – $1,998.80 |
| Atrium Health Mercy | Charlotte | $1,052.00 | $75.38 – $1,935.68 |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | $1,052.00 | $210.40 – $1,935.68 |
| Atrium Health Stanly | Albermarle | $1,052.00 | $252.48 – $2,019.84 |
| Atrium Health Union | Monroe | $1,052.00 | $273.52 – $1,998.80 |