Ghs moderate sedation < 5 yr, 30 min, other 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

$29.63

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.

$59.25

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.

$12.92 with Amerihealth Caritas vs $95.57 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.

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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 $12.92 ↓ -56%
Partners Managed Medicaid $13.04 ↓ -56%
Alliance Behavioral Health $13.05 ↓ -56%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $13.15 ↓ -56%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $13.17 ↓ -56%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $13.17 ↓ -56%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $13.30 ↓ -55%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $13.43 ↓ -55%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $13.56 ↓ -54%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $15.70 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $17.21 ↓ -42%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $19.33 ↓ -35%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $19.69 ↓ -34%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $20.04 ↓ -32%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $20.50 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $21.51 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $23.82 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $24.11 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $25.66 ↓ -13%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $25.92 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $26.19 ↓ -12%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $26.25 ↓ -11%
Aetna Broad Network $27.14 ↓ -8%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $29.63 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $29.98 ↑ +1%
MedCost Ultra $30.75 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $34.96 ↑ +18%
Magellan Behavioral Health $35.55 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $36.14 ↑ +22%
Quik Trip Commercial $38.51 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $38.51 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $39.99 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $42.66 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $42.66 ↑ +44%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $47.40 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $47.40 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $47.40 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $47.40 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $47.40 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $47.99 ↑ +62%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $48.59 ↑ +64%
Beechstreet Commercial $51.55 ↑ +74%
Multiplan Commercial $53.33 ↑ +80%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $76.46 ↑ +158%
Humana Medicare Advantage $77.99 ↑ +163%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $79.14 ↑ +167%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $79.35 ↑ +168%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $95.57 ↑ +223%
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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Ghs moderate sedation < 5 yr, 30 min, other at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $29.63 $11.26 – $59.25
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $29.63 $12.92 – $95.57
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $29.63 $5.93 – $95.57
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $29.63 $5.93 – $95.57
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $29.63 $18.12 – $77.99
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $29.63 $8.86 – $77.99
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $29.63 $7.27 – $95.57
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $29.63 $8.30 – $77.99

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