Caregiver training strategies&tq ea addl 15 min 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

$81.65

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.

$163.30

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.

$20.09 with Partners vs $146.97 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 $20.09 ↓ -75%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $20.29 ↓ -75%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $20.29 ↓ -75%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $20.29 ↓ -75%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $20.29 ↓ -75%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $20.29 ↓ -75%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $20.29 ↓ -75%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $20.29 ↓ -75%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $20.49 ↓ -75%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $23.37 ↓ -71%
Humana Medicare Advantage $23.84 ↓ -71%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $24.19 ↓ -70%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $24.25 ↓ -70%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $29.21 ↓ -64%
Alliance Behavioral Health $35.96 ↓ -56%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $43.27 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $47.44 ↓ -42%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $54.28 ↓ -34%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $55.23 ↓ -32%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $56.50 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $59.28 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $65.65 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $66.46 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $70.71 ↓ -13%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $71.43 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $72.18 ↓ -12%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $72.34 ↓ -11%
Aetna Broad Network $74.79 ↓ -8%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $81.65 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $82.63 ↑ +1%
MedCost Ultra $84.75 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $96.35 ↑ +18%
Magellan Behavioral Health $97.98 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $99.61 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $106.15 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $106.15 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $110.23 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $117.58 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $117.58 ↑ +44%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $130.64 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $130.64 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $130.64 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $130.64 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $130.64 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $132.27 ↑ +62%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $133.91 ↑ +64%
Beechstreet Commercial $142.07 ↑ +74%
Multiplan Commercial $146.97 ↑ +80%
Optum Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Molina Managed Medicaid not published by hospital

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Caregiver training strategies&tq ea addl 15 min at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $81.65 $20.29 – $143.70
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $81.65 $20.09 – $150.24
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $81.65 $16.33 – $150.24
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $81.65 $16.33 – $150.24
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $81.65 $20.29 – $150.24
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $81.65 $20.09 – $155.14
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $81.65 $20.04 – $155.14
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $81.65 $20.09 – $155.14

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