Pet not otherwise specified 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

$576.30

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.

$1,152.60

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.

$251.38 with Amerihealth Caritas vs $1,037.34 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
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $251.38 ↓ -56%
Partners Managed Medicaid $253.57 ↓ -56%
Alliance Behavioral Health $253.80 ↓ -56%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $255.88 ↓ -56%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $256.11 ↓ -56%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $256.11 ↓ -56%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $258.64 ↓ -55%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $261.18 ↓ -55%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $263.83 ↓ -54%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $305.44 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $334.83 ↓ -42%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $376.09 ↓ -35%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $383.12 ↓ -34%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $389.81 ↓ -32%
Humana Medicare Advantage $389.82 ↓ -32%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $395.56 ↓ -31%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $398.80 ↓ -31%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $401.29 ↓ -30%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $402.47 ↓ -30%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $418.39 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $463.35 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $469.11 ↓ -19%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $477.73 ↓ -17%
Cigna Commercial NB $499.08 ↓ -13%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $504.15 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $509.45 ↓ -12%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $510.60 ↓ -11%
Aetna Broad Network $527.89 ↓ -8%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $576.30 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $583.22 ↑ +1%
MedCost Ultra $598.20 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $680.03 ↑ +18%
Magellan Behavioral Health $691.56 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $703.09 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $749.19 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $749.19 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $778.01 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $829.87 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $829.87 ↑ +44%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $922.08 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $922.08 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $922.08 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $922.08 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $922.08 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $933.61 ↑ +62%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $945.13 ↑ +64%
Beechstreet Commercial $1,002.76 ↑ +74%
Multiplan Commercial $1,037.34 ↑ +80%
Optum Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Molina Managed Medicaid not published by hospital

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Pet not otherwise specified at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $576.30 $218.99 – $1,152.60
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $576.30 $251.38 – $1,060.39
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $576.30 $115.26 – $1,060.39
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $576.30 $115.26 – $1,060.39
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Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $576.30 $172.43 – $1,094.97
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