Vaginal bx 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

$366.65

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.

$733.30

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.

$45.26 with Partners vs $307.09 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 $45.26 ↓ -88%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $45.61 ↓ -88%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $46.48 ↓ -87%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $46.48 ↓ -87%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $46.48 ↓ -87%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $46.94 ↓ -87%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $47.87 ↓ -87%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $47.97 ↓ -87%
Alliance Behavioral Health $54.11 ↓ -85%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $58.38 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $67.66 ↓ -82%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $75.45 ↓ -79%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $85.66 ↓ -77%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $99.27 ↓ -73%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $103.25 ↓ -72%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $117.34 ↓ -68%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $118.96 ↓ -68%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $129.95 ↓ -65%
Cigna Commercial NB $139.97 ↓ -62%
Employers Health Network Commercial $142.88 ↓ -61%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $150.31 ↓ -59%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $161.63 ↓ -56%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $167.44 ↓ -54%
Aetna Broad Network $169.38 ↓ -54%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $172.62 ↓ -53%
MedCost Ultra $180.37 ↓ -51%
Humana Medicare Advantage $192.68 ↓ -47%
Magellan Behavioral Health $193.95 ↓ -47%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $195.52 ↓ -47%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $198.35 ↓ -46%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $198.94 ↓ -46%
GMMI Commercial $210.11 ↓ -43%
Quik Trip Commercial $210.11 ↓ -43%
MedCost PPO $214.31 ↓ -42%
Cigna Commercial SAR $218.19 ↓ -40%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $232.74 ↓ -37%
Aetna First Health Commercial $248.90 ↓ -32%
Cigna Behavioral Health $258.60 ↓ -29%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $258.60 ↓ -29%
Healthgram Commercial $258.60 ↓ -29%
ChoiceCare Commercial $265.07 ↓ -28%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $274.76 ↓ -25%
First Health Commercial $274.76 ↓ -25%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $290.93 ↓ -21%
Beechstreet Commercial $297.39 ↓ -19%
Multiplan Commercial $307.09 ↓ -16%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $366.65 $48.36 – $307.09
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