Collar cerv 18.25x3.5in serp firm density sm at Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center
1000 Blythe Blvd, Charlotte, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1295789907
$13.50
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.
$27.00
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.
$3.42 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina vs $42.36 with Ortho Carolina — 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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| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $3.42 | ↓ -75% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $3.89 | ↓ -71% |
| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $3.93 | ↓ -71% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $3.93 | ↓ -71% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $3.96 | ↓ -71% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $3.97 | ↓ -71% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $3.97 | ↓ -71% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $4.01 | ↓ -70% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $4.04 | ↓ -70% |
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $4.09 | ↓ -70% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $4.21 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $4.73 | ↓ -65% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $5.19 | ↓ -62% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $5.54 | ↓ -59% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $5.82 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $6.18 | ↓ -54% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $6.48 | ↓ -52% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $7.18 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial | $7.26 | ↓ -46% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $7.73 | ↓ -43% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $7.89 | ↓ -42% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $7.91 | ↓ -41% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $8.10 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $8.18 | ↓ -39% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $8.93 | ↓ -34% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $9.26 | ↓ -31% |
| MedCost | PPO | $10.53 | ↓ -22% |
| Magellan | Behavioral Health | $10.71 | ↓ -21% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $10.89 | ↓ -19% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $11.60 | ↓ -14% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $11.60 | ↓ -14% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $12.05 | ↓ -11% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Employee Plan | $12.85 | ↓ -5% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $12.85 | ↓ -5% |
| Healthgram | Commercial | $14.28 | ↑ +6% |
| Cigna | Behavioral Health | $14.28 | ↑ +6% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Commercial | $14.28 | ↑ +6% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $14.28 | ↑ +6% |
| First Health | Commercial | $14.28 | ↑ +6% |
| Provider Select | Commercial | $14.46 | ↑ +7% |
| Lifesynch Community Choice Care | Behavioral Health | $14.64 | ↑ +8% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $15.53 | ↑ +15% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $16.07 | ↑ +19% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $34.57 | ↑ +156% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $35.08 | ↑ +160% |
| Cigna Healthspring | Medicare Advantage | $35.58 | ↑ +164% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $35.69 | ↑ +164% |
| Ortho Carolina | Commercial | $42.36 | ↑ +214% |
| Optum | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan H | not published by hospital | — |
| Broughton Cardinal Partners | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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Collar cerv 18.25x3.5in serp firm density sm at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $13.50 | $3.39 – $17.85 |
| Atrium Health Mercy | Charlotte | $13.50 | $3.21 – $42.36 |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | $13.50 | $1.79 – $42.36 |
| Atrium Health University City | Charlotte | $13.50 | $1.79 – $42.36 |
| Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte | Charlotte | $13.50 | $5.46 – $35.58 |
| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $13.50 | $2.67 – $35.58 |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Concord | $13.50 | $2.19 – $42.36 |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Shelby | $13.50 | $2.50 – $41.86 |