Ketone body(s) beta-hydroxybutyrate quantitative 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

$95.38

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.

$190.75

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.

$8.33 with Humana vs $171.68 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 $8.33 ↓ -91%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $8.46 ↓ -91%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $8.58 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $8.60 ↓ -91%
Molina Managed Medicaid $9.91 ↓ -90%
Partners Managed Medicaid $10.08 ↓ -89%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $10.18 ↓ -89%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $10.18 ↓ -89%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $10.18 ↓ -89%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $10.18 ↓ -89%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $10.18 ↓ -89%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $10.18 ↓ -89%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $10.18 ↓ -89%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $10.21 ↓ -89%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $10.28 ↓ -89%
Alliance Behavioral Health $42.00 ↓ -56%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $50.55 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $55.41 ↓ -42%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $63.41 ↓ -34%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $64.51 ↓ -32%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $66.00 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $69.24 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $76.68 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $77.64 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $82.59 ↓ -13%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $83.43 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $84.31 ↓ -12%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $84.50 ↓ -11%
Aetna Broad Network $87.36 ↓ -8%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $95.38 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $96.52 ↑ +1%
MedCost Ultra $99.00 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $112.54 ↑ +18%
Magellan Behavioral Health $114.45 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $116.36 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $123.99 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $123.99 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $128.76 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $137.34 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $137.34 ↑ +44%
Cigna Behavioral Health $152.60 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $152.60 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $152.60 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $152.60 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $152.60 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $154.51 ↑ +62%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $156.42 ↑ +64%
Beechstreet Commercial $165.95 ↑ +74%
Multiplan Commercial $171.68 ↑ +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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Ketone body(s) beta-hydroxybutyrate quantitative at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $95.38 $10.18 – $167.86
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $95.38 $8.33 – $175.49
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $95.38 $8.33 – $175.49
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $95.38 $8.33 – $175.49
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $95.38 $8.33 – $175.49
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $95.38 $8.33 – $181.21
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $95.38 $8.33 – $181.21
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $95.38 $8.33 – $181.21

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