Chromosome analysis 100 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

$292.43

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.

$584.85

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.

$127.56 with Amerihealth Caritas vs $526.37 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 $127.56 ↓ -56%
Partners Managed Medicaid $128.67 ↓ -56%
Alliance Behavioral Health $128.78 ↓ -56%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $129.84 ↓ -56%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $129.95 ↓ -56%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $129.95 ↓ -56%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $131.24 ↓ -55%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $132.53 ↓ -55%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $133.87 ↓ -54%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $154.99 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $169.90 ↓ -42%
Humana Medicare Advantage $176.63 ↓ -40%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $179.23 ↓ -39%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $181.83 ↓ -38%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $182.37 ↓ -38%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $190.84 ↓ -35%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $194.40 ↓ -34%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $197.80 ↓ -32%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $202.36 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $212.30 ↓ -27%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $216.46 ↓ -26%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $235.11 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $238.03 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $253.24 ↓ -13%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $255.81 ↓ -13%
Molina Managed Medicaid $256.73 ↓ -12%
Employers Health Network Commercial $258.50 ↓ -12%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $259.09 ↓ -11%
Aetna Broad Network $267.86 ↓ -8%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $292.43 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $295.93 ↑ +1%
MedCost Ultra $303.54 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $345.06 ↑ +18%
Magellan Behavioral Health $350.91 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $356.76 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $380.15 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $380.15 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $394.77 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $421.09 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $421.09 ↑ +44%
Cigna Behavioral Health $467.88 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $467.88 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $467.88 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $467.88 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $467.88 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $473.73 ↑ +62%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $479.58 ↑ +64%
Beechstreet Commercial $508.82 ↑ +74%
Multiplan Commercial $526.37 ↑ +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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Chromosome analysis 100 at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $292.43 $111.12 – $584.85
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $292.43 $127.56 – $538.06
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $292.43 $58.49 – $538.06
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $292.43 $58.49 – $538.06
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $292.43 $176.63 – $538.06
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $292.43 $87.49 – $555.61
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $292.43 $71.76 – $555.61
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $292.43 $81.88 – $555.61

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