Warde cobalt heavy metal quantitative each nes 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

$172.55

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.

$345.10

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.

$7.79 with Molina vs $310.59 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
Molina Managed Medicaid $7.79 ↓ -95%
Humana Medicare Advantage $22.40 ↓ -87%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $22.73 ↓ -87%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $23.06 ↓ -87%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $23.13 ↓ -87%
Partners Managed Medicaid $27.08 ↓ -84%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $27.35 ↓ -84%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $27.35 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $27.35 ↓ -84%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $27.35 ↓ -84%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $27.35 ↓ -84%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $27.35 ↓ -84%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $27.35 ↓ -84%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $27.45 ↓ -84%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $27.62 ↓ -84%
Alliance Behavioral Health $75.99 ↓ -56%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $91.45 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $100.25 ↓ -42%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $114.71 ↓ -34%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $116.71 ↓ -32%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $119.40 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $125.27 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $138.73 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $140.46 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $149.43 ↓ -13%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $150.95 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $152.53 ↓ -12%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $152.88 ↓ -11%
Aetna Broad Network $158.06 ↓ -8%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $172.55 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $174.62 ↑ +1%
MedCost Ultra $179.11 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $203.61 ↑ +18%
Magellan Behavioral Health $207.06 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $210.51 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $224.32 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $224.32 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $232.94 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $248.47 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $248.47 ↑ +44%
Cigna Behavioral Health $276.08 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $276.08 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $276.08 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $276.08 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $276.08 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $279.53 ↑ +62%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $282.98 ↑ +64%
Beechstreet Commercial $300.24 ↑ +74%
Multiplan Commercial $310.59 ↑ +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 cobalt heavy metal quantitative each nes at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $172.55 $27.35 – $303.69
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $172.55 $7.79 – $317.49
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $172.55 $22.40 – $317.49
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $172.55 $22.40 – $317.49
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $172.55 $22.40 – $317.49
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $172.55 $22.40 – $327.85
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $172.55 $22.40 – $327.85
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $172.55 $22.40 – $327.85

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