Insert drug delivery implant 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

$285.80

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.

$571.60

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.

$57.57 with Cigna Healthspring vs $879.37 with Molina — 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
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $57.57 ↓ -80%
Humana Medicare Advantage $58.72 ↓ -79%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $59.58 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $59.75 ↓ -79%
Partners Managed Medicaid $64.68 ↓ -77%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $65.33 ↓ -77%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $65.33 ↓ -77%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $65.33 ↓ -77%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $65.33 ↓ -77%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $65.33 ↓ -77%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $65.33 ↓ -77%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $65.33 ↓ -77%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $65.97 ↓ -77%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $71.96 ↓ -75%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $109.46 ↓ -62%
Alliance Behavioral Health $125.87 ↓ -56%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $134.95 ↓ -53%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $151.47 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $166.05 ↓ -42%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $167.45 ↓ -41%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $177.54 ↓ -38%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $193.19 ↓ -32%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $197.77 ↓ -31%
ChoiceCare Commercial $200.32 ↓ -30%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $207.49 ↓ -27%
MedCost Ultra $210.71 ↓ -26%
MedCost PPO $210.71 ↓ -26%
Aetna Broad Network $213.15 ↓ -25%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $217.85 ↓ -24%
Cigna Commercial NB $247.50 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $252.65 ↓ -12%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $285.80 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $289.23 ↑ +1%
Magellan Behavioral Health $342.96 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $348.68 ↑ +22%
Quik Trip Commercial $371.54 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $371.54 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $385.83 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $411.55 ↑ +44%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $457.28 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $457.28 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $457.28 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $457.28 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $457.28 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $463.00 ↑ +62%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $468.71 ↑ +64%
Beechstreet Commercial $497.29 ↑ +74%
Multiplan Commercial $514.44 ↑ +80%
Molina Managed Medicaid $879.37 ↑ +208%
Optum Commercial 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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Insert drug delivery implant at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $285.80 $57.57 – $503.01
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $285.80 $57.57 – $879.37
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $285.80 $57.16 – $525.87
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $285.80 $57.16 – $525.87
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $285.80 $57.57 – $525.87
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $285.80 $57.57 – $543.02
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $285.80 $57.57 – $543.02
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $285.80 $57.57 – $543.02

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