Chemotherapy injection 96542 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

$589.90

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.

$1,179.80

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.

$36.34 with Partners vs $1,061.82 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 $36.34 ↓ -94%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $36.70 ↓ -94%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $36.70 ↓ -94%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $36.70 ↓ -94%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $36.70 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $36.70 ↓ -94%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $36.70 ↓ -94%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $36.70 ↓ -94%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $37.07 ↓ -94%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $38.22 ↓ -94%
Humana Medicare Advantage $38.98 ↓ -93%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $39.56 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $39.67 ↓ -93%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $47.78 ↓ -92%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $126.75 ↓ -79%
Alliance Behavioral Health $259.79 ↓ -56%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $299.08 ↓ -49%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $307.69 ↓ -48%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $312.65 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $342.73 ↓ -42%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $408.21 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $428.27 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $474.28 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $480.18 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $510.85 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $521.47 ↓ -12%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $522.65 ↓ -11%
Molina Managed Medicaid $525.11 ↓ -11%
Aetna Broad Network $540.35 ↓ -8%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $589.90 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $596.98 ↑ +1%
MedCost Ultra $612.32 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $696.08 ↑ +18%
Magellan Behavioral Health $707.88 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $719.68 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $766.87 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $766.87 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $796.37 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $849.46 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $849.46 ↑ +44%
Cigna Behavioral Health $943.84 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $943.84 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $943.84 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $943.84 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $943.84 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $955.64 ↑ +62%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $967.44 ↑ +64%
Beechstreet Commercial $1,026.43 ↑ +74%
Multiplan Commercial $1,061.82 ↑ +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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Chemotherapy injection 96542 at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $589.90 $36.70 – $1,038.22
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $589.90 $36.34 – $1,085.42
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $589.90 $36.34 – $1,085.42
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $589.90 $36.34 – $1,085.42
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $589.90 $36.70 – $1,085.42
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $589.90 $36.34 – $1,120.81
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $589.90 $36.34 – $1,120.81
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $589.90 $36.34 – $1,120.81

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