Application multi layer compression below knee (both sides) at Atrium Health Anson

2301 US Hwy 74 West, Wadesboro, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1891596607

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Dec 1, 2025 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$268.90

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.

$537.80

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.

$19.75 with Trillium vs $501.46 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 $19.75 ↓ -93%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $19.75 ↓ -93%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $19.95 ↓ -93%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $19.95 ↓ -93%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $19.95 ↓ -93%
Partners Managed Medicaid $19.95 ↓ -93%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $19.95 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $19.95 ↓ -93%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $20.15 ↓ -93%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $25.01 ↓ -91%
Humana Medicare Advantage $25.51 ↓ -91%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $25.89 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $25.96 ↓ -90%
Alliance Behavioral Health $79.76 ↓ -70%
ChoiceCare Commercial $80.85 ↓ -70%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $80.85 ↓ -70%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $100.68 ↓ -63%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $139.88 ↓ -48%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $161.47 ↓ -40%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $173.71 ↓ -35%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $196.36 ↓ -27%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $211.51 ↓ -21%
Cigna Commercial NB $228.56 ↓ -15%
Employers Health Network Commercial $233.31 ↓ -13%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus $245.45 ↓ -9%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $263.93 ↓ -2%
Aetna Broad Network $276.59 ↑ +3%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $282.93 ↑ +5%
MedCost Ultra $313.02 ↑ +16%
Quik Trip Commercial $343.10 ↑ +28%
GMMI Commercial $343.10 ↑ +28%
Cigna Commercial SAR $356.30 ↑ +33%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $360.52 ↑ +34%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $402.27 ↑ +50%
First Health Commercial $475.07 ↑ +77%
Provider Select Commercial $475.07 ↑ +77%
Healthgram Commercial $475.07 ↑ +77%
Aetna First Health Commercial $475.07 ↑ +77%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $485.62 ↑ +81%
MedCost PPO $496.18 ↑ +85%
Beechstreet Commercial $501.46 ↑ +86%
Multiplan Commercial $501.46 ↑ +86%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Application multi layer compression below knee (both sides) at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $268.90 $19.95 – $464.51
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $268.90 $19.75 – $501.46
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $268.90 $19.75 – $501.46
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $268.90 $19.75 – $501.46
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $268.90 $19.75 – $485.62
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $268.90 $19.75 – $485.62
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $268.90 $19.75 – $506.74
Atrium Health Union Monroe $268.90 $19.75 – $501.46

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