Magnetic image bone marrow 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

$970.85

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.

$1,941.70

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.

$66.52 with Partners vs $1,747.53 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
Partners Managed Medicaid $66.52 ↓ -93%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $67.19 ↓ -93%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $67.19 ↓ -93%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $67.19 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $67.19 ↓ -93%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $67.19 ↓ -93%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $67.19 ↓ -93%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $67.19 ↓ -93%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $67.85 ↓ -93%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $70.93 ↓ -93%
Humana Medicare Advantage $72.35 ↓ -93%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $73.41 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $73.61 ↓ -92%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $88.66 ↓ -91%
Molina Managed Medicaid $221.12 ↓ -77%
Alliance Behavioral Health $427.56 ↓ -56%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $483.29 ↓ -50%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $509.11 ↓ -48%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $514.55 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $564.06 ↓ -42%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $635.91 ↓ -34%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $671.83 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $704.84 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $780.56 ↓ -20%
Cigna Commercial NB $840.76 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $858.23 ↓ -12%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $860.17 ↓ -11%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $871.82 ↓ -10%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $970.85 ↑ +0%
Aetna Broad Network $982.50 ↑ +1%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $982.50 ↑ +1%
MedCost Ultra $1,007.74 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $1,145.60 ↑ +18%
Magellan Behavioral Health $1,165.02 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $1,184.44 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $1,262.11 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $1,262.11 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $1,310.65 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $1,398.02 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $1,398.02 ↑ +44%
Cigna Behavioral Health $1,553.36 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $1,553.36 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $1,553.36 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $1,553.36 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $1,553.36 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $1,572.78 ↑ +62%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $1,592.19 ↑ +64%
Beechstreet Commercial $1,689.28 ↑ +74%
Multiplan Commercial $1,747.53 ↑ +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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Magnetic image bone marrow at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $970.85 $67.19 – $1,708.70
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $970.85 $66.52 – $1,786.36
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $970.85 $66.52 – $1,786.36
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $970.85 $66.52 – $1,786.36
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $970.85 $67.19 – $1,786.36
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $970.85 $66.52 – $1,844.62
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $970.85 $66.52 – $1,844.62
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $970.85 $66.52 – $1,844.62

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