Warde cadmium blood 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

$41.25

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.

$82.50

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.

$17.99 with Amerihealth Caritas vs $74.25 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
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $17.99 ↓ -56%
Partners Managed Medicaid $18.15 ↓ -56%
Alliance Behavioral Health $18.17 ↓ -56%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $18.32 ↓ -56%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $18.33 ↓ -56%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $18.33 ↓ -56%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $18.51 ↓ -55%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $18.69 ↓ -55%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $18.88 ↓ -54%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $21.86 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $23.97 ↓ -42%
Humana Medicare Advantage $24.11 ↓ -42%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $24.47 ↓ -41%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $24.82 ↓ -40%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $24.90 ↓ -40%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $26.92 ↓ -35%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $27.42 ↓ -34%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $27.90 ↓ -32%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $28.55 ↓ -31%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $29.55 ↓ -28%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $29.95 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $33.17 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $33.58 ↓ -19%
Molina Managed Medicaid $34.30 ↓ -17%
Cigna Commercial NB $35.72 ↓ -13%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $36.09 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $36.47 ↓ -12%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $36.55 ↓ -11%
Aetna Broad Network $37.79 ↓ -8%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $41.25 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $41.75 ↑ +1%
MedCost Ultra $42.82 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $48.68 ↑ +18%
Magellan Behavioral Health $49.50 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $50.33 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $53.63 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $53.63 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $55.69 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $59.40 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $59.40 ↑ +44%
Cigna Behavioral Health $66.00 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $66.00 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $66.00 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $66.00 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $66.00 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $66.83 ↑ +62%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $67.65 ↑ +64%
Beechstreet Commercial $71.78 ↑ +74%
Multiplan Commercial $74.25 ↑ +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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Warde cadmium blood at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $41.25 $15.68 – $72.60
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $41.25 $17.99 – $75.90
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $41.25 $8.25 – $75.90
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $41.25 $8.25 – $75.90
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $41.25 $24.11 – $75.90
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $41.25 $12.34 – $78.38
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $41.25 $10.12 – $78.38
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $41.25 $11.55 – $78.38

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