Alteplase 100 mg infusion from pyxis vial at Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center
1000 Blythe Blvd, Charlotte, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1295789907
$17,085.20
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.
$34,170.40
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.
$12.12 with Amerihealth Caritas vs $118.06 with Ortho Carolina — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $12.12 | ↓ -100% |
| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $12.22 | ↓ -100% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $12.23 | ↓ -100% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $12.33 | ↓ -100% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $12.34 | ↓ -100% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $12.34 | ↓ -100% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $12.47 | ↓ -100% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $12.59 | ↓ -100% |
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $12.72 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $14.72 | ↓ -100% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $16.14 | ↓ -100% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $17.21 | ↓ -100% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $17.21 | ↓ -100% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $17.21 | ↓ -100% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $18.13 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $19.22 | ↓ -100% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $20.16 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $22.22 | ↓ -100% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $22.33 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial | $22.61 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $24.05 | ↓ -100% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $24.55 | ↓ -100% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $24.61 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $25.44 | ↓ -100% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $27.78 | ↓ -100% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $28.83 | ↓ -100% |
| MedCost | PPO | $32.77 | ↓ -100% |
| Magellan | Behavioral Health | $33.33 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $33.89 | ↓ -100% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $36.11 | ↓ -100% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $36.11 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $37.50 | ↓ -100% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Employee Plan | $40.00 | ↓ -100% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $40.00 | ↓ -100% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $44.44 | ↓ -100% |
| First Health | Commercial | $44.44 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Behavioral Health | $44.44 | ↓ -100% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Commercial | $44.44 | ↓ -100% |
| Healthgram | Commercial | $44.44 | ↓ -100% |
| Provider Select | Commercial | $45.00 | ↓ -100% |
| Lifesynch Community Choice Care | Behavioral Health | $45.55 | ↓ -100% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $48.33 | ↓ -100% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $50.00 | ↓ -100% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $95.15 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $96.34 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $97.75 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna Healthspring | Medicare Advantage | $99.17 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $99.46 | ↓ -99% |
| Ortho Carolina | Commercial | $118.06 | ↓ -99% |
| Optum | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan H | not published by hospital | — |
| Broughton Cardinal Partners | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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Alteplase 100 mg infusion from pyxis vial at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $17,085.20 | $10.55 – $55.55 |
| Atrium Health Mercy | Charlotte | $17,085.20 | $12.12 – $118.06 |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | $17,085.20 | $5.56 – $118.06 |
| Atrium Health University City | Charlotte | $17,085.20 | $5.56 – $118.06 |
| Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte | Charlotte | $17,085.20 | $15.67 – $99.17 |
| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $17,085.20 | $8.31 – $99.17 |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Concord | $17,085.20 | $6.82 – $118.06 |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Shelby | $17,085.20 | $7.78 – $99.17 |