Culture fungi skin/hair/nail 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

$107.10

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.

$214.20

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.

$6.89 with Molina vs $192.78 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
Molina Managed Medicaid $6.89 ↓ -94%
Humana Medicare Advantage $7.86 ↓ -93%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $7.98 ↓ -93%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $8.10 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $8.12 ↓ -92%
Partners Managed Medicaid $9.51 ↓ -91%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $9.61 ↓ -91%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $9.61 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $9.61 ↓ -91%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $9.61 ↓ -91%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $9.61 ↓ -91%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $9.61 ↓ -91%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $9.61 ↓ -91%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $9.64 ↓ -91%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $9.70 ↓ -91%
Alliance Behavioral Health $47.17 ↓ -56%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $56.76 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $62.23 ↓ -42%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $71.20 ↓ -34%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $72.44 ↓ -32%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $74.11 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $77.75 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $86.11 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $87.18 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $92.75 ↓ -13%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $93.69 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $94.68 ↓ -12%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $94.89 ↓ -11%
Aetna Broad Network $98.10 ↓ -8%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $107.10 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $108.39 ↑ +1%
MedCost Ultra $111.17 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $126.38 ↑ +18%
Magellan Behavioral Health $128.52 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $130.66 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $139.23 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $139.23 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $144.59 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $154.22 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $154.22 ↑ +44%
Cigna Behavioral Health $171.36 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $171.36 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $171.36 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $171.36 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $171.36 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $173.50 ↑ +62%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $175.64 ↑ +64%
Beechstreet Commercial $186.35 ↑ +74%
Multiplan Commercial $192.78 ↑ +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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Culture fungi skin/hair/nail at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $107.10 $9.61 – $188.50
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $107.10 $6.89 – $197.06
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $107.10 $7.86 – $197.06
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $107.10 $7.86 – $197.06
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $107.10 $7.86 – $197.06
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $107.10 $7.86 – $203.49
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $107.10 $7.86 – $203.49
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $107.10 $7.86 – $203.49

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