Homocysteine 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

$202.95

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.

$405.90

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.

$18.28 with Humana vs $365.31 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 $18.28 ↓ -91%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $18.55 ↓ -91%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $18.82 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $18.87 ↓ -91%
Partners Managed Medicaid $20.81 ↓ -90%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $21.02 ↓ -90%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $21.02 ↓ -90%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $21.02 ↓ -90%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $21.02 ↓ -90%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $21.02 ↓ -90%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $21.02 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $21.02 ↓ -90%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $21.23 ↓ -90%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $22.40 ↓ -89%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $23.01 ↓ -89%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $23.01 ↓ -89%
Molina Managed Medicaid $25.00 ↓ -88%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $30.12 ↓ -85%
Aetna Broad Network $33.33 ↓ -84%
MedCost Ultra $37.85 ↓ -81%
MedCost PPO $37.85 ↓ -81%
Alliance Behavioral Health $89.38 ↓ -56%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $107.56 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $117.91 ↓ -42%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $134.92 ↓ -34%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $137.28 ↓ -32%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $140.44 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $147.34 ↓ -27%
Cigna Commercial NB $175.75 ↓ -13%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $177.54 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $179.41 ↓ -12%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $202.95 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $205.39 ↑ +1%
Magellan Behavioral Health $243.54 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $247.60 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $263.84 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $263.84 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $273.98 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $292.25 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $292.25 ↑ +44%
Cigna Behavioral Health $324.72 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $324.72 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $324.72 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $324.72 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $324.72 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $328.78 ↑ +62%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $332.84 ↑ +64%
Beechstreet Commercial $353.13 ↑ +74%
Multiplan Commercial $365.31 ↑ +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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Homocysteine at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $202.95 $21.02 – $357.19
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $202.95 $18.28 – $373.43
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $202.95 $18.28 – $373.43
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $202.95 $18.28 – $373.43
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $202.95 $18.28 – $373.43
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $202.95 $18.28 – $385.61
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $202.95 $18.28 – $385.61
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $202.95 $18.28 – $385.61

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