Potassium 24 hour urine 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

$50.10

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.

$100.20

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.

$4.82 with Humana vs $90.18 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
Humana Medicare Advantage $4.82 ↓ -90%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $4.90 ↓ -90%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $4.97 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $4.98 ↓ -90%
Partners Managed Medicaid $5.31 ↓ -89%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $5.36 ↓ -89%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $5.36 ↓ -89%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $5.36 ↓ -89%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $5.36 ↓ -89%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $5.36 ↓ -89%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $5.36 ↓ -89%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $5.36 ↓ -89%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $5.42 ↓ -89%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $5.87 ↓ -88%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $5.87 ↓ -88%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $5.91 ↓ -88%
Molina Managed Medicaid $6.37 ↓ -87%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $7.95 ↓ -84%
Aetna Broad Network $8.80 ↓ -82%
Alliance Behavioral Health $22.06 ↓ -56%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $26.55 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $29.11 ↓ -42%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $33.31 ↓ -34%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $33.89 ↓ -32%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $34.67 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $36.37 ↓ -27%
Cigna Commercial NB $43.39 ↓ -13%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $43.83 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $44.29 ↓ -12%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $50.10 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $50.70 ↑ +1%
MedCost Ultra $52.00 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $59.12 ↑ +18%
Magellan Behavioral Health $60.12 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $61.12 ↑ +22%
Quik Trip Commercial $65.13 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $65.13 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $67.64 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $72.14 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $72.14 ↑ +44%
Cigna Behavioral Health $80.16 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $80.16 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $80.16 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $80.16 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $80.16 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $81.16 ↑ +62%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $82.16 ↑ +64%
Beechstreet Commercial $87.17 ↑ +74%
Multiplan Commercial $90.18 ↑ +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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Potassium 24 hour urine at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $50.10 $5.36 – $88.18
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $50.10 $4.82 – $92.18
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $50.10 $4.82 – $92.18
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $50.10 $4.82 – $92.18
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $50.10 $4.82 – $92.18
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $50.10 $4.82 – $95.19
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $50.10 $4.82 – $95.19
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $50.10 $4.82 – $95.19

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