Administration vaccine pneumococcal at Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center

1000 Blythe Blvd, Charlotte, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1295789907

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Dec 5, 2025 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$59.08

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.

$118.15

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.

$25.77 with Amerihealth Caritas vs $106.34 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
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $25.77 ↓ -56%
Partners Managed Medicaid $25.99 ↓ -56%
Alliance Behavioral Health $26.02 ↓ -56%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $26.23 ↓ -56%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $26.25 ↓ -56%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $26.25 ↓ -56%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $26.51 ↓ -55%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $26.77 ↓ -55%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $27.04 ↓ -54%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $31.31 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $34.32 ↓ -42%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $38.55 ↓ -35%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $39.27 ↓ -34%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $39.96 ↓ -32%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $40.88 ↓ -31%
ChoiceCare Commercial $41.46 ↓ -30%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $42.89 ↓ -27%
Humana Medicare Advantage $44.76 ↓ -24%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $45.42 ↓ -23%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $46.08 ↓ -22%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $46.21 ↓ -22%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $47.50 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $48.09 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $51.16 ↓ -13%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $51.64 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $52.22 ↓ -12%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $52.34 ↓ -11%
Aetna Broad Network $54.11 ↓ -8%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $54.85 ↓ -7%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $59.08 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $59.78 ↑ +1%
MedCost Ultra $61.32 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $69.71 ↑ +18%
Magellan Behavioral Health $70.89 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $72.07 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $76.80 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $76.80 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $79.75 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $85.07 ↑ +44%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $94.52 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $94.52 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $94.52 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $94.52 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $94.52 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $95.70 ↑ +62%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $96.88 ↑ +64%
Beechstreet Commercial $102.79 ↑ +74%
Multiplan Commercial $106.34 ↑ +80%
Optum Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Molina Managed Medicaid not published by hospital

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Administration vaccine pneumococcal at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $59.08 $22.45 – $118.15
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $59.08 $25.77 – $108.70
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $59.08 $11.82 – $108.70
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $59.08 $11.82 – $108.70
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $59.08 $36.14 – $108.70
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $59.08 $17.68 – $112.24
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $59.08 $14.50 – $112.24
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $59.08 $16.54 – $112.24

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