IV infusion therapy/prophylaxis/diagnosis initial up to 1 hour at Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center
1000 Blythe Blvd, Charlotte, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1295789907
$3,567.08
Cash price 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.
$7,134.15
Gross charge 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.
$53.30 with Partners vs $252.27 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.
Full explanation →
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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.
Full explanation →Payer ?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. Full explanation → |
Plan ?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. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $53.30 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna Healthspring | Medicare Advantage | $53.78 | ↓ -98% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $53.83 | ↓ -98% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $53.83 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $53.83 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $53.83 | ↓ -98% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $53.83 | ↓ -98% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $53.83 | ↓ -98% |
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $53.83 | ↓ -98% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $54.37 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $54.86 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $55.66 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $55.82 | ↓ -98% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $61.72 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $62.81 | ↓ -98% |
| Ortho Carolina | Commercial | $67.23 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $74.28 | ↓ -98% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $81.43 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $93.17 | ↓ -97% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $94.80 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $96.98 | ↓ -97% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $101.75 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $112.68 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial | $114.08 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $121.37 | ↓ -97% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $122.60 | ↓ -97% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $123.89 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $124.17 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $128.38 | ↓ -96% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $140.15 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $141.83 | ↓ -96% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $145.48 | ↓ -96% |
| MedCost | PPO | $165.38 | ↓ -95% |
| Magellan | Behavioral Health | $168.18 | ↓ -95% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $170.76 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $170.98 | ↓ -95% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $182.20 | ↓ -95% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $182.20 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $189.20 | ↓ -95% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Employee Plan | $201.82 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | Behavioral Health | $224.24 | ↓ -94% |
| First Health | Commercial | $224.24 | ↓ -94% |
| Healthgram | Commercial | $224.24 | ↓ -94% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $224.24 | ↓ -94% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Commercial | $224.24 | ↓ -94% |
| Provider Select | Commercial | $227.04 | ↓ -94% |
| Lifesynch Community Choice Care | Behavioral Health | $229.85 | ↓ -94% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $243.86 | ↓ -93% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $252.27 | ↓ -93% |
| 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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IV infusion therapy/prophylaxis/diagnosis initial up to 1 hour at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $3,567.08 | $53.26 – $246.66 |
| Atrium Health Mercy | Charlotte | $3,567.08 | $53.30 – $257.88 |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | $3,567.08 | $28.03 – $257.88 |
| Atrium Health University City | Charlotte | $3,567.08 | $28.03 – $257.88 |
| Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte | Charlotte | $3,567.08 | $53.78 – $257.88 |
| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $3,567.08 | $41.93 – $266.29 |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Concord | $3,567.08 | $34.39 – $266.29 |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Shelby | $3,567.08 | $39.24 – $266.29 |