Platelets pheresis leukocytes reduced each unit 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

$1,235.83

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.

$2,471.65

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.

$85.42 with Molina vs $2,224.49 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
Molina Managed Medicaid $85.42 ↓ -93%
Humana Medicare Advantage $496.84 ↓ -60%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $504.15 ↓ -59%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $511.46 ↓ -59%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $512.97 ↓ -58%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $539.07 ↓ -56%
Partners Managed Medicaid $543.76 ↓ -56%
Alliance Behavioral Health $544.26 ↓ -56%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $548.71 ↓ -56%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $549.20 ↓ -56%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $549.20 ↓ -56%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $554.64 ↓ -55%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $560.08 ↓ -55%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $565.76 ↓ -54%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $608.88 ↓ -51%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $654.99 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $718.01 ↓ -42%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $806.50 ↓ -35%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $821.58 ↓ -34%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $835.91 ↓ -32%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $855.19 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $897.21 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $993.60 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $1,005.96 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $1,070.22 ↓ -13%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $1,081.10 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $1,092.47 ↓ -12%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $1,094.94 ↓ -11%
Aetna Broad Network $1,132.02 ↓ -8%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $1,235.83 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $1,250.65 ↑ +1%
MedCost Ultra $1,282.79 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $1,458.27 ↑ +18%
Magellan Behavioral Health $1,482.99 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $1,507.71 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $1,606.57 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $1,606.57 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $1,668.36 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $1,779.59 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $1,779.59 ↑ +44%
Cigna Behavioral Health $1,977.32 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $1,977.32 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $1,977.32 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $1,977.32 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $1,977.32 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $2,002.04 ↑ +62%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $2,026.75 ↑ +64%
Beechstreet Commercial $2,150.34 ↑ +74%
Multiplan Commercial $2,224.49 ↑ +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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Platelets pheresis leukocytes reduced each unit at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $1,235.83 $469.61 – $2,471.65
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $1,235.83 $85.42 – $2,273.92
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $1,235.83 $247.17 – $2,273.92
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $1,235.83 $247.17 – $2,273.92
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $1,235.83 $496.84 – $2,273.92
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $1,235.83 $369.76 – $2,348.07
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $1,235.83 $303.27 – $2,348.07
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $1,235.83 $346.03 – $2,348.07

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