Ghs urine, porphyrins quant 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

$118.23

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.

$236.45

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.

$15.00 with Humana vs $212.81 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 $15.00 ↓ -87%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $15.22 ↓ -87%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $15.45 ↓ -87%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $15.49 ↓ -87%
Partners Managed Medicaid $18.14 ↓ -85%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $18.32 ↓ -85%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $18.32 ↓ -85%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $18.32 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $18.32 ↓ -85%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $18.32 ↓ -85%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $18.32 ↓ -85%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $18.32 ↓ -85%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $18.39 ↓ -84%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $18.50 ↓ -84%
Molina Managed Medicaid $21.80 ↓ -82%
Alliance Behavioral Health $52.07 ↓ -56%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $62.66 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $68.69 ↓ -42%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $78.60 ↓ -34%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $79.97 ↓ -32%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $81.81 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $85.83 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $95.05 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $96.24 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $102.38 ↓ -13%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $103.42 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $104.51 ↓ -12%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $104.75 ↓ -11%
Aetna Broad Network $108.29 ↓ -8%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $118.23 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $119.64 ↑ +1%
MedCost Ultra $122.72 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $139.51 ↑ +18%
Magellan Behavioral Health $141.87 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $144.23 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $153.69 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $153.69 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $159.60 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $170.24 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $170.24 ↑ +44%
Cigna Behavioral Health $189.16 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $189.16 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $189.16 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $189.16 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $189.16 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $191.52 ↑ +62%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $193.89 ↑ +64%
Beechstreet Commercial $205.71 ↑ +74%
Multiplan Commercial $212.81 ↑ +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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Ghs urine, porphyrins quant at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $118.23 $18.32 – $208.08
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $118.23 $15.00 – $217.53
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $118.23 $15.00 – $217.53
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $118.23 $15.00 – $217.53
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $118.23 $15.00 – $217.53
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $118.23 $15.00 – $224.63
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $118.23 $15.00 – $224.63
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $118.23 $15.00 – $224.63

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