Buprenorphine X-ray over 100 mg 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

$3,658.00

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.

$7,316.00

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.

$1,595.62 with Amerihealth Caritas vs $6,584.40 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
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $1,595.62 ↓ -56%
Partners Managed Medicaid $1,609.52 ↓ -56%
Alliance Behavioral Health $1,610.98 ↓ -56%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $1,624.15 ↓ -56%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $1,625.62 ↓ -56%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $1,625.62 ↓ -56%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $1,641.71 ↓ -55%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $1,657.81 ↓ -55%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $1,674.63 ↓ -54%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $1,938.74 ↓ -47%
Humana Medicare Advantage $2,056.75 ↓ -44%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $2,087.00 ↓ -43%
Molina Managed Medicaid $2,094.42 ↓ -43%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $2,117.24 ↓ -42%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $2,123.50 ↓ -42%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $2,125.30 ↓ -42%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $2,192.46 ↓ -40%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $2,267.23 ↓ -38%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $2,267.23 ↓ -38%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $2,387.21 ↓ -35%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $2,520.53 ↓ -31%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $2,531.34 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $2,655.71 ↓ -27%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $2,926.40 ↓ -20%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $2,941.03 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $2,977.61 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $3,167.83 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $3,233.67 ↓ -12%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $3,240.99 ↓ -11%
Aetna Broad Network $3,350.73 ↓ -8%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $3,658.00 ↑ +0%
MedCost Ultra $3,797.00 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $4,316.44 ↑ +18%
Magellan Behavioral Health $4,389.60 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $4,462.76 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $4,755.40 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $4,755.40 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $4,938.30 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $5,267.52 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $5,267.52 ↑ +44%
Cigna Behavioral Health $5,852.80 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $5,852.80 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $5,852.80 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $5,852.80 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $5,852.80 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $5,925.96 ↑ +62%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $5,999.12 ↑ +64%
Beechstreet Commercial $6,364.92 ↑ +74%
Multiplan Commercial $6,584.40 ↑ +80%
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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Buprenorphine X-ray over 100 mg at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $3,658.00 $1,390.04 – $7,316.00
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $3,658.00 $1,595.62 – $6,730.72
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $3,658.00 $731.60 – $6,730.72
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $3,658.00 $731.60 – $6,730.72
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $3,658.00 $2,056.75 – $6,730.72
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $3,658.00 $1,094.47 – $6,950.20
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $3,658.00 $897.67 – $6,950.20
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $3,658.00 $1,024.24 – $6,950.20

All North-carolina hospitals for this procedure →