X-ray humerus >= 2 views left 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

$231.50

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.

$463.00

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.

$7.01 with Partners vs $416.70 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
Partners Managed Medicaid $7.01 ↓ -97%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $7.08 ↓ -97%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $7.08 ↓ -97%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $7.08 ↓ -97%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $7.08 ↓ -97%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $7.08 ↓ -97%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $7.08 ↓ -97%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $7.08 ↓ -97%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $7.15 ↓ -97%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $7.19 ↓ -97%
Humana Medicare Advantage $7.33 ↓ -97%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $7.44 ↓ -97%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $7.46 ↓ -97%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $8.99 ↓ -96%
Molina Managed Medicaid $13.55 ↓ -94%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $40.99 ↓ -82%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $44.50 ↓ -81%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $44.50 ↓ -81%
Aetna Broad Network $49.85 ↓ -78%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $50.05 ↓ -78%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $50.05 ↓ -78%
MedCost Ultra $52.38 ↓ -77%
MedCost PPO $52.38 ↓ -77%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $53.94 ↓ -77%
Alliance Behavioral Health $101.95 ↓ -56%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $134.50 ↓ -42%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $156.59 ↓ -32%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $168.07 ↓ -27%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $188.44 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $200.48 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $204.65 ↓ -12%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $231.50 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $234.28 ↑ +1%
Magellan Behavioral Health $277.80 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $282.43 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $300.95 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $300.95 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $312.53 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $333.36 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $333.36 ↑ +44%
Cigna Behavioral Health $370.40 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $370.40 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $370.40 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $370.40 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $370.40 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $375.03 ↑ +62%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $379.66 ↑ +64%
Beechstreet Commercial $402.81 ↑ +74%
Multiplan Commercial $416.70 ↑ +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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X-ray humerus >= 2 views left at other North-carolina hospitals

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Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $231.50 $7.08 – $407.44
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