Brace m arm board 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

$7.43

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.

$14.85

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.

$1.56 with Amerihealth Caritas vs $290.32 with United Healthcare — 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
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $1.56 ↓ -79%
Alliance Behavioral Health $1.57 ↓ -79%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $1.59 ↓ -79%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $1.59 ↓ -79%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $1.59 ↓ -79%
Partners Managed Medicaid $1.59 ↓ -79%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $1.60 ↓ -78%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $1.60 ↓ -78%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $1.64 ↓ -78%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $2.30 ↓ -69%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $2.76 ↓ -63%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $3.19 ↓ -57%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $3.88 ↓ -48%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $4.18 ↓ -44%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $4.19 ↓ -44%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $4.46 ↓ -40%
Cigna Commercial NB $4.51 ↓ -39%
Employers Health Network Commercial $4.61 ↓ -38%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus $4.85 ↓ -35%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $5.21 ↓ -30%
Aetna Broad Network $5.46 ↓ -27%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $5.49 ↓ -26%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $5.59 ↓ -25%
MedCost Ultra $6.18 ↓ -17%
Quik Trip Commercial $6.77 ↓ -9%
GMMI Commercial $6.77 ↓ -9%
Cigna Commercial SAR $7.03 ↓ -5%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $7.12 ↓ -4%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $8.10 ↑ +9%
Provider Select Commercial $9.38 ↑ +26%
First Health Commercial $9.38 ↑ +26%
Healthgram Commercial $9.38 ↑ +26%
Aetna First Health Commercial $9.38 ↑ +26%
ChoiceCare Commercial $9.38 ↑ +26%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $9.59 ↑ +29%
MedCost PPO $9.79 ↑ +32%
Beechstreet Commercial $9.90 ↑ +33%
Multiplan Commercial $9.90 ↑ +33%
Humana Medicare Advantage $281.19 ↑ +3685%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $285.33 ↑ +3740%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $289.46 ↑ +3796%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $290.32 ↑ +3807%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital —
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital —

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