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Analyze neurostimulator simple w/reprogramming 95971 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

$560.70

Cash price

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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.

$1,121.40

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.

$32.21 with Partners vs $1,009.26 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
Partners Managed Medicaid $32.21 ↓ -94%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $32.53 ↓ -94%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $32.53 ↓ -94%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $32.53 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $32.53 ↓ -94%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $32.53 ↓ -94%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $32.53 ↓ -94%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $32.53 ↓ -94%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $32.85 ↓ -94%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $35.81 ↓ -94%
Humana Medicare Advantage $36.53 ↓ -93%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $37.06 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $37.17 ↓ -93%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $44.76 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $100.84 ↓ -82%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $100.84 ↓ -82%
Aetna Broad Network $103.44 ↓ -82%
MedCost Ultra $104.34 ↓ -81%
MedCost PPO $104.34 ↓ -81%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $112.95 ↓ -80%
Alliance Behavioral Health $246.93 ↓ -56%
Molina Managed Medicaid $273.87 ↓ -51%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $297.17 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $325.77 ↓ -42%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $372.75 ↓ -34%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $379.26 ↓ -32%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $388.00 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $407.07 ↓ -27%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $456.41 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $485.57 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $495.66 ↓ -12%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $560.70 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $567.43 ↑ +1%
Magellan Behavioral Health $672.84 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $684.05 ↑ +22%
Quik Trip Commercial $728.91 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $728.91 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $756.95 ↑ +35%
ChoiceCare Commercial $807.41 ↑ +44%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $807.41 ↑ +44%
Cigna Behavioral Health $897.12 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $897.12 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $897.12 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $897.12 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $897.12 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $908.33 ↑ +62%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $919.55 ↑ +64%
Beechstreet Commercial $975.62 ↑ +74%
Multiplan Commercial $1,009.26 ↑ +80%
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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Analyze neurostimulator simple w/reprogramming 95971 at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $560.70 $32.53 – $986.83
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $560.70 $32.21 – $1,031.69
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $560.70 $32.21 – $1,031.69
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $560.70 $32.21 – $1,031.69
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Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $560.70 $32.21 – $1,065.33
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $560.70 $32.21 – $1,065.33
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $560.70 $32.21 – $1,065.33

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