Lidocaine (pf) 4 mg/ml (0.4 %) in 5 % dextrose intravenous solution at Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center
1000 Blythe Blvd, Charlotte, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1295789907
$38.00
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.
$76.00
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.
$0.01 with Ortho Carolina vs $52.20 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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| Ortho Carolina | Commercial | $0.01 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna Healthspring | Medicare Advantage | $0.01 | ↓ -100% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $0.01 | ↓ -100% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $0.01 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $0.01 | ↓ -100% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $12.65 | ↓ -67% |
| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $12.76 | ↓ -66% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $12.77 | ↓ -66% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $12.88 | ↓ -66% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $12.89 | ↓ -66% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $12.89 | ↓ -66% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $13.02 | ↓ -66% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $13.14 | ↓ -65% |
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $13.28 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $15.37 | ↓ -60% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $16.85 | ↓ -56% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $17.97 | ↓ -53% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $17.97 | ↓ -53% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $17.97 | ↓ -53% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $18.93 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $20.07 | ↓ -47% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $21.05 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $23.20 | ↓ -39% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $23.32 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial | $23.61 | ↓ -38% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $25.11 | ↓ -34% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $25.64 | ↓ -33% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $25.69 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $26.56 | ↓ -30% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $29.00 | ↓ -24% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $30.10 | ↓ -21% |
| MedCost | PPO | $34.22 | ↓ -10% |
| Magellan | Behavioral Health | $34.80 | ↓ -8% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $35.38 | ↓ -7% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $37.70 | ↓ -1% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $37.70 | ↓ -1% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $39.15 | ↑ +3% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $41.76 | ↑ +10% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Employee Plan | $41.76 | ↑ +10% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $46.40 | ↑ +22% |
| Cigna | Behavioral Health | $46.40 | ↑ +22% |
| First Health | Commercial | $46.40 | ↑ +22% |
| Healthgram | Commercial | $46.40 | ↑ +22% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Commercial | $46.40 | ↑ +22% |
| Provider Select | Commercial | $46.98 | ↑ +24% |
| Lifesynch Community Choice Care | Behavioral Health | $47.56 | ↑ +25% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $50.46 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $52.20 | ↑ +37% |
| Broughton Cardinal Partners | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Optum | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan H | not published by hospital | — |
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Lidocaine (pf) 4 mg/ml (0.4 %) in 5 % dextrose intravenous solution at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $38.00 | $11.02 – $58.00 |
| Atrium Health Mercy | Charlotte | $38.00 | $0.01 – $53.36 |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | $38.00 | $0.01 – $53.36 |
| Atrium Health University City | Charlotte | $38.00 | $0.01 – $53.36 |
| Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte | Charlotte | $38.00 | $0.01 – $53.36 |
| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $38.00 | $0.01 – $55.10 |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Concord | $38.00 | $0.01 – $55.10 |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Shelby | $38.00 | $0.01 – $55.10 |