Concentration infection agents any type 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

$48.68

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.

$97.35

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.

$6.81 with Humana vs $87.62 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
Humana Medicare Advantage $6.81 ↓ -86%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $6.91 ↓ -86%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $7.01 ↓ -86%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $7.03 ↓ -86%
Partners Managed Medicaid $8.24 ↓ -83%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $8.32 ↓ -83%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $8.32 ↓ -83%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $8.32 ↓ -83%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $8.32 ↓ -83%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $8.32 ↓ -83%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $8.32 ↓ -83%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $8.32 ↓ -83%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $8.35 ↓ -83%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $8.40 ↓ -83%
Molina Managed Medicaid $9.90 ↓ -80%
Alliance Behavioral Health $21.44 ↓ -56%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $25.80 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $28.28 ↓ -42%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $32.36 ↓ -34%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $32.92 ↓ -32%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $33.68 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $35.34 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $39.13 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $39.62 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $42.15 ↓ -13%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $42.58 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $43.03 ↓ -12%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $43.13 ↓ -11%
Aetna Broad Network $44.59 ↓ -8%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $48.68 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $49.26 ↑ +1%
MedCost Ultra $50.52 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $57.44 ↑ +18%
Magellan Behavioral Health $58.41 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $59.38 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $63.28 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $63.28 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $65.71 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $70.09 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $70.09 ↑ +44%
Cigna Behavioral Health $77.88 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $77.88 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $77.88 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $77.88 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $77.88 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $78.85 ↑ +62%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $79.83 ↑ +64%
Beechstreet Commercial $84.69 ↑ +74%
Multiplan Commercial $87.62 ↑ +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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