Warde analysis gene hfe common variants at Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center
1000 Blythe Blvd, Charlotte, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1295789907
$590.83
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.
$1,181.65
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.
$66.67 with Humana vs $861.08 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $66.67 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $67.65 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna Healthspring | Medicare Advantage | $68.63 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $68.83 | ↓ -88% |
| Ortho Carolina | Commercial | $81.70 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $89.17 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $89.17 | ↓ -85% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $208.67 | ↓ -65% |
| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $210.49 | ↓ -64% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $210.68 | ↓ -64% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $212.40 | ↓ -64% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $212.59 | ↓ -64% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $212.59 | ↓ -64% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $214.69 | ↓ -64% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $216.80 | ↓ -63% |
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $219.00 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $253.54 | ↓ -57% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $277.94 | ↓ -53% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $312.19 | ↓ -47% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $318.02 | ↓ -46% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $323.57 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $331.04 | ↓ -44% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $347.30 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial | $389.40 | ↓ -34% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $414.27 | ↓ -30% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $418.48 | ↓ -29% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $422.88 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $438.19 | ↓ -26% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $478.38 | ↓ -19% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $484.12 | ↓ -18% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $496.55 | ↓ -16% |
| MedCost | PPO | $564.48 | ↓ -4% |
| Magellan | Behavioral Health | $574.05 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $583.62 | ↓ -1% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $621.89 | ↑ +5% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $621.89 | ↑ +5% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $645.81 | ↑ +9% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Employee Plan | $688.86 | ↑ +17% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $688.86 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $765.40 | ↑ +30% |
| First Health | Commercial | $765.40 | ↑ +30% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Commercial | $765.40 | ↑ +30% |
| Cigna | Behavioral Health | $765.40 | ↑ +30% |
| Healthgram | Commercial | $765.40 | ↑ +30% |
| Provider Select | Commercial | $774.97 | ↑ +31% |
| Lifesynch Community Choice Care | Behavioral Health | $784.54 | ↑ +33% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $832.37 | ↑ +41% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $861.08 | ↑ +46% |
| 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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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $590.83 | $181.78 – $956.75 |
| Atrium Health Mercy | Charlotte | $590.83 | $66.67 – $880.21 |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | $590.83 | $66.67 – $880.21 |
| Atrium Health University City | Charlotte | $590.83 | $66.67 – $880.21 |
| Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte | Charlotte | $590.83 | $66.67 – $880.21 |
| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $590.83 | $66.67 – $908.91 |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Concord | $590.83 | $66.67 – $908.91 |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Shelby | $590.83 | $66.67 – $908.91 |