Cholesterol body fluid at Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center
1000 Blythe Blvd, Charlotte, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1295789907
$53.75
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.
$107.50
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.
$18.15 with Amerihealth Caritas vs $74.88 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 |
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| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $18.15 | ↓ -66% |
| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $18.30 | ↓ -66% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $18.32 | ↓ -66% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $18.47 | ↓ -66% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $18.49 | ↓ -66% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $18.49 | ↓ -66% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $18.67 | ↓ -65% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $18.85 | ↓ -65% |
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $19.04 | ↓ -65% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $20.14 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $22.05 | ↓ -59% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $24.17 | ↓ -55% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $27.15 | ↓ -49% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $27.66 | ↓ -49% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $28.14 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $28.79 | ↓ -46% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $30.20 | ↓ -44% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $33.45 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial | $33.86 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $36.03 | ↓ -33% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $36.39 | ↓ -32% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $36.77 | ↓ -32% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $36.86 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $38.11 | ↓ -29% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $41.60 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $42.10 | ↓ -22% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $43.18 | ↓ -20% |
| MedCost | PPO | $49.09 | ↓ -9% |
| Magellan | Behavioral Health | $49.92 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $50.75 | ↓ -6% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $54.08 | ↑ +1% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $54.08 | ↑ +1% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $56.16 | ↑ +4% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Employee Plan | $59.90 | ↑ +11% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $59.90 | ↑ +11% |
| Healthgram | Commercial | $66.56 | ↑ +24% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Commercial | $66.56 | ↑ +24% |
| Cigna | Behavioral Health | $66.56 | ↑ +24% |
| First Health | Commercial | $66.56 | ↑ +24% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $66.56 | ↑ +24% |
| Provider Select | Commercial | $67.39 | ↑ +25% |
| Lifesynch Community Choice Care | Behavioral Health | $68.22 | ↑ +27% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $72.38 | ↑ +35% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $74.88 | ↑ +39% |
| Optum | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna Healthspring | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Ortho Carolina | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan H | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Broughton Cardinal Partners | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
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Cholesterol body fluid at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $53.75 | $15.81 – $83.20 |
| Atrium Health Mercy | Charlotte | $53.75 | $18.15 – $76.54 |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | $53.75 | $8.32 – $76.54 |
| Atrium Health University City | Charlotte | $53.75 | $8.32 – $76.54 |
| Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte | Charlotte | $53.75 | $25.45 – $76.54 |
| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $53.75 | $12.45 – $79.04 |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Concord | $53.75 | $10.21 – $79.04 |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Shelby | $53.75 | $11.65 – $79.04 |