Blood Draw (Venipuncture) at Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte

501 Billingsley Rd, Charlotte, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1053358945

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Dec 4, 2025 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$4.55

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.

$9.09

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.

$1.73 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina vs $8.00 with Beechstreet — 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
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Medicare Advantage $1.73 ↓ -62%
Humana Medicare Advantage $1.73 ↓ -62%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $1.73 ↓ -62%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $1.73 ↓ -62%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $1.98 ↓ -56%
Partners LME-MCO $2.00 ↓ -56%
Alliance Behavioral Health $2.00 ↓ -56%
Sandhills LME-MCO $2.01 ↓ -56%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $2.02 ↓ -56%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $2.02 ↓ -56%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $2.12 ↓ -53%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $2.73 ↓ -40%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $2.73 ↓ -40%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $2.75 ↓ -40%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $2.75 ↓ -40%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $2.75 ↓ -40%
MedCost Commercial $2.82 ↓ -38%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $4.55 ↑ +0%
Magellan Behavioral Health $5.45 ↑ +20%
Quik Trip Commercial $5.91 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $5.91 ↑ +30%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $6.54 ↑ +44%
Healthgram Commercial $7.27 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $7.27 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $7.27 ↑ +60%
Humana Behavioral Health $7.45 ↑ +64%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $7.45 ↑ +64%
Provider Select Commercial $7.91 ↑ +74%
First Health Commercial $8.00 ↑ +76%
Beechstreet Commercial $8.00 ↑ +76%
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital —
Aetna Broad Network not published by hospital —
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital —
Aetna Whole Health not published by hospital —
United Behavioral Health not published by hospital —
Aetna Signature not published by hospital —
Aetna Preferred not published by hospital —

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Blood Draw (Venipuncture) at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $4.55 $1.98 – $11.36
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $4.55 $0.91 – $11.36
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $4.55 $0.91 – $11.36
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte $4.55 $1.98 – $11.36
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $4.55 $2.10 – $9.54
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $4.55 $1.36 – $9.54
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $4.55 $1.12 – $11.36
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $4.55 $1.27 – $9.54

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