Vaginal bx at Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center
1000 Blythe Blvd, Charlotte, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1295789907
$366.65
Cash price 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.
$733.30
Gross charge 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.
$61.90 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina vs $879.37 with Molina — 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.
Full explanation →
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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.
Full explanation →Payer ?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. Full explanation → |
Plan ?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. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $61.90 | ↓ -83% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $70.50 | ↓ -81% |
| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $71.12 | ↓ -81% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $71.18 | ↓ -81% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $71.76 | ↓ -80% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $71.83 | ↓ -80% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $71.83 | ↓ -80% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $72.54 | ↓ -80% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $73.25 | ↓ -80% |
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $73.99 | ↓ -80% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $76.32 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $85.66 | ↓ -77% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $93.90 | ↓ -74% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $100.40 | ↓ -73% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $105.48 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $111.84 | ↓ -69% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $117.34 | ↓ -68% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $129.95 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial | $131.56 | ↓ -64% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $139.97 | ↓ -62% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $142.88 | ↓ -61% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $143.20 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $148.05 | ↓ -60% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $161.63 | ↓ -56% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $163.56 | ↓ -55% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $167.77 | ↓ -54% |
| MedCost | PPO | $190.72 | ↓ -48% |
| Magellan | Behavioral Health | $193.95 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $195.16 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $197.18 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $198.03 | ↓ -46% |
| Cigna Healthspring | Medicare Advantage | $200.90 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $201.49 | ↓ -45% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $210.11 | ↓ -43% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $210.11 | ↓ -43% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $218.19 | ↓ -40% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Employee Plan | $232.74 | ↓ -37% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $232.74 | ↓ -37% |
| Ortho Carolina | Commercial | $239.17 | ↓ -35% |
| First Health | Commercial | $258.60 | ↓ -29% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $258.60 | ↓ -29% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Commercial | $258.60 | ↓ -29% |
| Cigna | Behavioral Health | $258.60 | ↓ -29% |
| Healthgram | Commercial | $258.60 | ↓ -29% |
| Provider Select | Commercial | $261.83 | ↓ -29% |
| Lifesynch Community Choice Care | Behavioral Health | $265.07 | ↓ -28% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $281.23 | ↓ -23% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $290.93 | ↓ -21% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $879.37 | ↑ +140% |
| Optum | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan H | not published by hospital | — |
| Broughton Cardinal Partners | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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Vaginal bx at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $366.65 | $61.42 – $323.25 |
| Atrium Health Mercy | Charlotte | $366.65 | $58.09 – $879.37 |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | $366.65 | $32.33 – $297.39 |
| Atrium Health University City | Charlotte | $366.65 | $32.33 – $297.39 |
| Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte | Charlotte | $366.65 | $98.88 – $297.39 |
| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $366.65 | $48.36 – $307.09 |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Concord | $366.65 | $39.66 – $307.09 |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Shelby | $366.65 | $45.26 – $307.09 |