Valproic acid total therapeutic drug level 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

$114.48

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.

$228.95

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.

$13.81 with Humana vs $206.06 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 $13.81 ↓ -88%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $14.01 ↓ -88%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $14.22 ↓ -88%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $14.26 ↓ -88%
Partners Managed Medicaid $16.53 ↓ -86%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $16.70 ↓ -85%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $16.70 ↓ -85%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $16.70 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $16.70 ↓ -85%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $16.70 ↓ -85%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $16.70 ↓ -85%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $16.70 ↓ -85%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $16.86 ↓ -85%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $16.93 ↓ -85%
Molina Managed Medicaid $17.25 ↓ -85%
Alliance Behavioral Health $50.41 ↓ -56%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $60.67 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $66.51 ↓ -42%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $76.10 ↓ -34%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $77.43 ↓ -32%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $79.22 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $83.11 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $92.04 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $93.18 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $99.14 ↓ -13%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $100.14 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $101.20 ↓ -12%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $101.42 ↓ -11%
Aetna Broad Network $104.86 ↓ -8%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $114.48 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $115.85 ↑ +1%
MedCost Ultra $118.83 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $135.08 ↑ +18%
Magellan Behavioral Health $137.37 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $139.66 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $148.82 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $148.82 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $154.54 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $164.84 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $164.84 ↑ +44%
Cigna Behavioral Health $183.16 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $183.16 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $183.16 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $183.16 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $183.16 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $185.45 ↑ +62%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $187.74 ↑ +64%
Beechstreet Commercial $199.19 ↑ +74%
Multiplan Commercial $206.06 ↑ +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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Valproic acid total therapeutic drug level at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $114.48 $16.53 – $201.48
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $114.48 $13.81 – $210.63
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $114.48 $13.81 – $210.63
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $114.48 $13.81 – $210.63
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $114.48 $13.81 – $210.63
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $114.48 $13.81 – $217.50
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $114.48 $13.81 – $217.50
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $114.48 $13.81 – $217.50

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