Calcitonin (salmon) 200 unit/ml injection solution at Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center
1000 Blythe Blvd, Charlotte, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1295789907
$1,471.80
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.
$2,943.60
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.
$494.67 with Humana vs $2,256.53 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $494.67 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $501.95 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna Healthspring | Medicare Advantage | $509.22 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $510.73 | ↓ -65% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $546.83 | ↓ -63% |
| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $551.60 | ↓ -63% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $552.10 | ↓ -62% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $556.61 | ↓ -62% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $557.11 | ↓ -62% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $557.11 | ↓ -62% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $562.63 | ↓ -62% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $568.14 | ↓ -61% |
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $573.91 | ↓ -61% |
| Ortho Carolina | Commercial | $606.22 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $664.42 | ↓ -55% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $728.36 | ↓ -51% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $777.00 | ↓ -47% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $777.00 | ↓ -47% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $777.00 | ↓ -47% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $818.12 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $867.51 | ↓ -41% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $910.13 | ↓ -38% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $1,002.90 | ↓ -32% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $1,007.91 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial | $1,020.45 | ↓ -31% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $1,085.64 | ↓ -26% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $1,108.20 | ↓ -25% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $1,110.71 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $1,148.32 | ↓ -22% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $1,187.00 | ↓ -19% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $1,253.63 | ↓ -15% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $1,301.26 | ↓ -12% |
| MedCost | PPO | $1,479.28 | ↑ +1% |
| Magellan | Behavioral Health | $1,504.35 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $1,529.42 | ↑ +4% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $1,629.71 | ↑ +11% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $1,629.71 | ↑ +11% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $1,692.39 | ↑ +15% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Employee Plan | $1,805.22 | ↑ +23% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $1,805.22 | ↑ +23% |
| Cigna | Behavioral Health | $2,005.80 | ↑ +36% |
| First Health | Commercial | $2,005.80 | ↑ +36% |
| Healthgram | Commercial | $2,005.80 | ↑ +36% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $2,005.80 | ↑ +36% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Commercial | $2,005.80 | ↑ +36% |
| Provider Select | Commercial | $2,030.87 | ↑ +38% |
| Lifesynch Community Choice Care | Behavioral Health | $2,055.95 | ↑ +40% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $2,181.31 | ↑ +48% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $2,256.53 | ↑ +53% |
| 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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Calcitonin (salmon) 200 unit/ml injection solution at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $1,471.80 | $476.38 – $2,507.25 |
| Atrium Health Mercy | Charlotte | $1,471.80 | $494.67 – $2,306.67 |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | $1,471.80 | $250.73 – $2,306.67 |
| Atrium Health University City | Charlotte | $1,471.80 | $250.73 – $2,306.67 |
| Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte | Charlotte | $1,471.80 | $494.67 – $2,306.67 |
| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $1,471.80 | $375.08 – $2,381.89 |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Concord | $1,471.80 | $307.64 – $2,381.89 |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Shelby | $1,471.80 | $351.02 – $2,381.89 |