Idecabtagene vicleucel car 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

$1,584,640.30

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.

$3,169,280.60

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.

$568,464.29 with Humana vs $2,852,352.54 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 $568,464.29 ↓ -64%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $576,824.06 ↓ -64%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $585,183.83 ↓ -63%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $586,911.52 ↓ -63%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $691,220.10 ↓ -56%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $696,647.42 ↓ -56%
Partners Managed Medicaid $697,241.73 ↓ -56%
Alliance Behavioral Health $697,875.59 ↓ -56%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $703,580.29 ↓ -56%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $704,214.15 ↓ -56%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $704,214.15 ↓ -56%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $711,186.57 ↓ -55%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $718,158.98 ↓ -55%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $725,448.33 ↓ -54%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $839,859.36 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $920,676.01 ↓ -42%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $1,034,136.26 ↓ -35%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $1,053,468.87 ↓ -34%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $1,071,850.70 ↓ -32%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $1,096,571.09 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $1,150,448.86 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $1,274,050.80 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $1,289,897.20 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $1,372,298.50 ↓ -13%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $1,386,243.33 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $1,400,822.03 ↓ -12%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $1,403,991.31 ↓ -11%
Aetna Broad Network $1,451,530.51 ↓ -8%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $1,584,640.30 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $1,603,655.98 ↑ +1%
MedCost Ultra $1,644,856.63 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $1,869,875.55 ↑ +18%
Magellan Behavioral Health $1,901,568.36 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $1,933,261.17 ↑ +22%
Quik Trip Commercial $2,060,032.39 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $2,060,032.39 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $2,139,264.41 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $2,281,882.03 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $2,281,882.03 ↑ +44%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $2,535,424.48 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $2,535,424.48 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $2,535,424.48 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $2,535,424.48 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $2,535,424.48 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $2,567,117.29 ↑ +62%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $2,598,810.09 ↑ +64%
Beechstreet Commercial $2,757,274.12 ↑ +74%
Multiplan Commercial $2,852,352.54 ↑ +80%
Optum Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Molina Managed Medicaid not published by hospital

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Idecabtagene vicleucel car at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $1,584,640.30 $602,163.31 – $3,169,280.60
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $1,584,640.30 $568,464.29 – $2,915,738.15
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $1,584,640.30 $316,928.06 – $2,915,738.15
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $1,584,640.30 $316,928.06 – $2,915,738.15
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $1,584,640.30 $568,464.29 – $2,915,738.15
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $1,584,640.30 $474,124.38 – $3,010,816.57
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $1,584,640.30 $388,870.73 – $3,010,816.57
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $1,584,640.30 $443,699.28 – $3,010,816.57

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