Alprostadil for injection 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

$1,307.70

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.

$2,615.40

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.

$10.59 with Molina vs $459.41 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
Molina Managed Medicaid $10.59 ↓ -99%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $111.33 ↓ -91%
Partners Managed Medicaid $112.30 ↓ -91%
Alliance Behavioral Health $112.40 ↓ -91%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $113.32 ↓ -91%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $113.42 ↓ -91%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $113.42 ↓ -91%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $114.54 ↓ -91%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $115.67 ↓ -91%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $116.84 ↓ -91%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $135.27 ↓ -90%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $148.29 ↓ -89%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $158.19 ↓ -88%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $158.19 ↓ -88%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $158.19 ↓ -88%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $166.56 ↓ -87%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $176.62 ↓ -86%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $185.29 ↓ -86%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $204.18 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $205.20 ↓ -84%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $207.75 ↓ -84%
Cigna Commercial NB $221.02 ↓ -83%
Employers Health Network Commercial $225.62 ↓ -83%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $226.13 ↓ -83%
Aetna Broad Network $233.79 ↓ -82%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $255.23 ↓ -80%
MedCost Ultra $264.92 ↓ -80%
MedCost PPO $301.17 ↓ -77%
Magellan Behavioral Health $306.27 ↓ -77%
Aetna First Health Commercial $311.37 ↓ -76%
GMMI Commercial $331.79 ↓ -75%
Quik Trip Commercial $331.79 ↓ -75%
Cigna Commercial SAR $344.55 ↓ -74%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $367.52 ↓ -72%
ChoiceCare Commercial $367.52 ↓ -72%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $408.36 ↓ -69%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $408.36 ↓ -69%
First Health Commercial $408.36 ↓ -69%
Healthgram Commercial $408.36 ↓ -69%
Cigna Behavioral Health $408.36 ↓ -69%
Provider Select Commercial $413.46 ↓ -68%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $418.57 ↓ -68%
Beechstreet Commercial $444.09 ↓ -66%
Multiplan Commercial $459.41 ↓ -65%
Aetna Medicare Advantage not published by hospital —
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage not published by hospital —
Humana Medicare Advantage not published by hospital —
Optum Commercial not published by hospital —
Ortho Carolina Commercial not published by hospital —
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital —
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage not published by hospital —
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital —

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Alprostadil for injection at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $1,307.70 $96.99 – $510.45
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $1,307.70 $10.59 – $469.61
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $1,307.70 $51.05 – $469.61
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Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $1,307.70 $62.63 – $484.93
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $1,307.70 $71.46 – $484.93

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