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Annual Physical, New Patient (age 40-64) at Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center
1000 Blythe Blvd, Charlotte, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1295789907
$188.15
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.
$376.30
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.
$64.34 with Amerihealth Caritas vs $265.50 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.
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 | $64.34 | ↓ -66% |
| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $64.90 | ↓ -66% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $64.96 | ↓ -65% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $65.49 | ↓ -65% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $65.55 | ↓ -65% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $65.55 | ↓ -65% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $66.20 | ↓ -65% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $66.85 | ↓ -64% |
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $67.53 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $78.18 | ↓ -58% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $85.70 | ↓ -54% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $96.26 | ↓ -49% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $98.06 | ↓ -48% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $99.77 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $102.07 | ↓ -46% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $107.09 | ↓ -43% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $118.59 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial | $120.07 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $127.74 | ↓ -32% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $129.03 | ↓ -31% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $130.39 | ↓ -31% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $130.69 | ↓ -31% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $131.71 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $135.11 | ↓ -28% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $141.58 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $143.66 | ↓ -24% |
| Cigna Healthspring | Medicare Advantage | $145.74 | ↓ -23% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $147.50 | ↓ -22% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $149.27 | ↓ -21% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $153.11 | ↓ -19% |
| Ortho Carolina | Commercial | $173.50 | ↓ -8% |
| MedCost | PPO | $174.05 | ↓ -7% |
| Magellan | Behavioral Health | $177.00 | ↓ -6% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $179.95 | ↓ -4% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $191.75 | ↑ +2% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $191.75 | ↑ +2% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $199.13 | ↑ +6% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $199.87 | ↑ +6% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Employee Plan | $212.40 | ↑ +13% |
| First Health | Commercial | $236.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $236.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Cigna | Behavioral Health | $236.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Commercial | $236.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Healthgram | Commercial | $236.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Provider Select | Commercial | $238.95 | ↑ +27% |
| Lifesynch Community Choice Care | Behavioral Health | $241.90 | ↑ +29% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $256.65 | ↑ +36% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $265.50 | ↑ +41% |
| Broughton Cardinal Partners | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Optum | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan H | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
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Annual Physical, New Patient (age 40-64) at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $188.15 | $56.05 – $259.60 |
| Atrium Health Mercy | Charlotte | $188.15 | $64.34 – $271.40 |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | $188.15 | $29.50 – $271.40 |
| Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte | Charlotte | $188.15 | $90.24 – $271.40 |
| Atrium Health University City | Charlotte | $188.15 | $29.50 – $271.40 |
| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $188.15 | $44.13 – $280.25 |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Shelby | $188.15 | $41.30 – $280.25 |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Concord | $188.15 | $36.20 – $280.25 |