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Proton trmt simple w/comp 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

$3,826.55

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.

$7,653.10

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.

$817.54 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina vs $7,653.10 with Carolina Complete Health — 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 $817.54 ↓ -79%
Humana Medicare Advantage $833.89 ↓ -78%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $846.15 ↓ -78%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $858.42 ↓ -78%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $1,669.14 ↓ -56%
Partners LME-MCO $1,683.68 ↓ -56%
Alliance Behavioral Health $1,685.21 ↓ -56%
Sandhills LME-MCO $1,688.27 ↓ -56%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $1,700.52 ↓ -56%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $1,700.52 ↓ -56%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $1,787.76 ↓ -53%
MedCost Commercial $2,372.46 ↓ -38%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $2,497.21 ↓ -35%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $3,065.07 ↓ -20%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $3,091.85 ↓ -19%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $3,826.55 ↑ +0%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $4,068.39 ↑ +6%
Magellan Behavioral Health $4,591.86 ↑ +20%
GMMI Commercial $4,974.52 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $4,974.52 ↑ +30%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $5,510.23 ↑ +44%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $6,122.48 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $6,122.48 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $6,122.48 ↑ +60%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $6,275.54 ↑ +64%
Humana Behavioral Health $6,275.54 ↑ +64%
Provider Select Commercial $6,658.20 ↑ +74%
First Health Commercial $6,734.73 ↑ +76%
Beechstreet Commercial $6,734.73 ↑ +76%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $7,653.10 ↑ +100%
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
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital
Aetna Preferred not published by hospital

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Proton trmt simple w/comp at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $3,826.55 $817.54 – $7,040.85
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $3,826.55 $765.31 – $7,040.85
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $3,826.55 $817.54 – $7,270.45
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $3,826.55 $817.54 – $7,270.45
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $3,826.55 $817.54 – $7,270.45
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $3,826.55 $817.54 – $7,270.45
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $3,826.55 $817.54 – $7,346.98
Atrium Health Union Monroe $3,826.55 $817.54 – $7,270.45

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