N block inj common digit 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

$877.00

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.

$1,754.00

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.

$54.87 with Partners vs $1,578.60 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 $54.87 ↓ -94%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $55.42 ↓ -94%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $55.42 ↓ -94%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $55.42 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $55.42 ↓ -94%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $55.42 ↓ -94%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $55.42 ↓ -94%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $55.42 ↓ -94%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $55.97 ↓ -94%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $63.20 ↓ -93%
Humana Medicare Advantage $64.46 ↓ -93%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $65.41 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $65.59 ↓ -93%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $79.00 ↓ -91%
Molina Managed Medicaid $314.06 ↓ -64%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $335.89 ↓ -62%
Alliance Behavioral Health $386.23 ↓ -56%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $414.12 ↓ -53%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $464.81 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $509.54 ↓ -42%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $544.79 ↓ -38%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $606.88 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $636.70 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $705.11 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $713.88 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $759.48 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $775.27 ↓ -12%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $777.02 ↓ -11%
Aetna Broad Network $803.33 ↓ -8%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $877.00 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $887.52 ↑ +1%
MedCost Ultra $910.33 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $1,034.86 ↑ +18%
Magellan Behavioral Health $1,052.40 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $1,069.94 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $1,140.10 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $1,140.10 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $1,183.95 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $1,262.88 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $1,262.88 ↑ +44%
Cigna Behavioral Health $1,403.20 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $1,403.20 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $1,403.20 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $1,403.20 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $1,403.20 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $1,420.74 ↑ +62%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $1,438.28 ↑ +64%
Beechstreet Commercial $1,525.98 ↑ +74%
Multiplan Commercial $1,578.60 ↑ +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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N block inj common digit at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $877.00 $55.42 – $1,543.52
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $877.00 $54.87 – $1,613.68
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $877.00 $54.87 – $1,613.68
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $877.00 $54.87 – $1,613.68
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $877.00 $55.42 – $1,613.68
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $877.00 $54.87 – $1,666.30
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $877.00 $54.87 – $1,666.30
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $877.00 $54.87 – $1,666.30

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