Observation per hour at Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte
501 Billingsley Rd, Charlotte, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1053358945
$1.58
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.
$3.15
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.
$0.59 with Alliance vs $1,679.00 with Magellan — 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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| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $0.59 | ↓ -63% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $0.60 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna Healthspring | Medicare Advantage | $0.60 | ↓ -62% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Medicare Advantage | $0.60 | ↓ -62% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $0.69 | ↓ -56% |
| Sandhills | LME-MCO | $0.69 | ↓ -56% |
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $0.69 | ↓ -56% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $0.70 | ↓ -56% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $0.70 | ↓ -56% |
| Partners | LME-MCO | $0.74 | ↓ -53% |
| MedCost | Commercial | $0.98 | ↓ -38% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $1.03 | ↓ -35% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $1.27 | ↓ -20% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $1.34 | ↓ -15% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $1.58 | ↑ +0% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $1.58 | ↑ +0% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $1.67 | ↑ +6% |
| Aetna | Signature | $1.92 | ↑ +22% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $2.01 | ↑ +27% |
| Aetna | Preferred | $2.01 | ↑ +27% |
| Aetna | Whole Health | $2.01 | ↑ +27% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $2.05 | ↑ +30% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $2.05 | ↑ +30% |
| Healthgram | Commercial | $2.52 | ↑ +59% |
| Lifesynch Community Choice Care | Behavioral Health | $2.58 | ↑ +63% |
| Humana | Behavioral Health | $2.58 | ↑ +63% |
| Provider Select | Commercial | $2.74 | ↑ +73% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $2.77 | ↑ +75% |
| First Health | Commercial | $2.77 | ↑ +75% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $3.15 | ↑ +99% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Employee Plan | $810.00 | ↑ +51166% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Commercial | $1,125.00 | ↑ +71103% |
| United | Behavioral Health | $1,139.00 | ↑ +71989% |
| Cigna | Behavioral Health | $1,443.00 | ↑ +91229% |
| Magellan | Behavioral Health | $1,679.00 | ↑ +106166% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan H | not published by hospital | — |
| Broughton Cardinal Partners | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Observation per hour at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sentara Albemarle Regional Medical Center | Elizabeth City | $36.00 | not published |
| Adventhealth Hendersonville | Hendersonville | $34.00 | not published |
| AdventHealth Polk | Columbus | $107.10 | not published |