Application of paste boot 29580 at Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center
1000 Blythe Blvd, Charlotte, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1295789907
$168.53
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.
$337.05
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.
$24.17 with Cigna Healthspring vs $297.72 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna Healthspring | Medicare Advantage | $24.17 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $24.65 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $25.02 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $25.08 | ↓ -85% |
| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $27.49 | ↓ -84% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $27.76 | ↓ -84% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $27.76 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $27.76 | ↓ -84% |
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $27.76 | ↓ -84% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $27.76 | ↓ -84% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $27.76 | ↓ -84% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $27.76 | ↓ -84% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $28.04 | ↓ -83% |
| Ortho Carolina | Commercial | $30.21 | ↓ -82% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $64.55 | ↓ -62% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $70.11 | ↓ -58% |
| MedCost | PPO | $70.11 | ↓ -58% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $72.84 | ↓ -57% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $75.38 | ↓ -55% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $79.58 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $87.66 | ↓ -48% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $96.10 | ↓ -43% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $104.69 | ↓ -38% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $108.87 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $114.34 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $114.46 | ↓ -32% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $120.08 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $134.11 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial | $134.64 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $143.24 | ↓ -15% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $146.21 | ↓ -13% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $165.40 | ↓ -2% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $167.38 | ↓ -1% |
| Magellan | Behavioral Health | $198.48 | ↑ +18% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $201.79 | ↑ +20% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $215.02 | ↑ +28% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $215.02 | ↑ +28% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $223.29 | ↑ +32% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Employee Plan | $238.18 | ↑ +41% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $238.18 | ↑ +41% |
| Cigna | Behavioral Health | $264.64 | ↑ +57% |
| First Health | Commercial | $264.64 | ↑ +57% |
| Healthgram | Commercial | $264.64 | ↑ +57% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $264.64 | ↑ +57% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Commercial | $264.64 | ↑ +57% |
| Provider Select | Commercial | $267.95 | ↑ +59% |
| Lifesynch Community Choice Care | Behavioral Health | $271.26 | ↑ +61% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $287.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $297.72 | ↑ +77% |
| Broughton Cardinal Partners | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Optum | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan H | not published by hospital | — |
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Application of paste boot 29580 at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $168.53 | $24.17 – $291.10 |
| Atrium Health Mercy | Charlotte | $168.53 | $24.17 – $304.34 |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | $168.53 | $24.17 – $304.34 |
| Atrium Health University City | Charlotte | $168.53 | $24.17 – $304.34 |
| Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte | Charlotte | $168.53 | $24.17 – $304.34 |
| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $168.53 | $24.17 – $314.26 |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Concord | $168.53 | $24.17 – $314.26 |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Shelby | $168.53 | $24.17 – $314.26 |