Nm imaging gastrointestinal acute blood loss 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

$996.35

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.

$1,992.70

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.

$41.06 with Partners vs $1,793.43 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 $41.06 ↓ -96%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $41.47 ↓ -96%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $41.47 ↓ -96%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $41.47 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $41.47 ↓ -96%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $41.47 ↓ -96%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $41.47 ↓ -96%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $41.47 ↓ -96%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $41.88 ↓ -96%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $43.07 ↓ -96%
Humana Medicare Advantage $43.93 ↓ -96%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $44.58 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $44.70 ↓ -96%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $53.84 ↓ -95%
Molina Managed Medicaid $272.38 ↓ -73%
Alliance Behavioral Health $438.79 ↓ -56%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $528.07 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $578.88 ↓ -42%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $662.37 ↓ -34%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $673.93 ↓ -32%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $689.47 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $723.35 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $801.07 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $811.03 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $862.84 ↓ -13%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $871.61 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $880.77 ↓ -12%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $882.77 ↓ -11%
Aetna Broad Network $912.66 ↓ -8%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $996.35 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $1,008.31 ↑ +1%
MedCost Ultra $1,034.21 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $1,175.69 ↑ +18%
Magellan Behavioral Health $1,195.62 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $1,215.55 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $1,295.26 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $1,295.26 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $1,345.07 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $1,434.74 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $1,434.74 ↑ +44%
Cigna Behavioral Health $1,594.16 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $1,594.16 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $1,594.16 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $1,594.16 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $1,594.16 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $1,614.09 ↑ +62%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $1,634.01 ↑ +64%
Beechstreet Commercial $1,733.65 ↑ +74%
Multiplan Commercial $1,793.43 ↑ +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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Nm imaging gastrointestinal acute blood loss at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $996.35 $41.47 – $1,753.58
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $996.35 $41.06 – $1,833.28
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $996.35 $41.06 – $1,833.28
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $996.35 $41.06 – $1,833.28
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $996.35 $41.47 – $1,833.28
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $996.35 $41.06 – $1,893.07
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $996.35 $41.06 – $1,893.07
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $996.35 $41.06 – $1,893.07

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