X-ray nasal bones complete > 3 views 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

$357.95

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.

$715.90

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 $644.31 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 ↓ -98%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $7.08 ↓ -98%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $7.08 ↓ -98%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $7.08 ↓ -98%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $7.08 ↓ -98%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $7.08 ↓ -98%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $7.08 ↓ -98%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $7.08 ↓ -98%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $7.15 ↓ -98%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $7.81 ↓ -98%
Humana Medicare Advantage $7.97 ↓ -98%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $8.08 ↓ -98%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $8.11 ↓ -98%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $9.76 ↓ -97%
Molina Managed Medicaid $29.30 ↓ -92%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $55.88 ↓ -84%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $56.43 ↓ -84%
Aetna Broad Network $61.65 ↓ -83%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $62.18 ↓ -83%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $62.18 ↓ -83%
Alliance Behavioral Health $157.64 ↓ -56%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $189.71 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $207.97 ↓ -42%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $237.97 ↓ -34%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $242.12 ↓ -32%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $247.70 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $259.87 ↓ -27%
Cigna Commercial NB $309.98 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $316.43 ↓ -12%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $357.95 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $362.25 ↑ +1%
MedCost Ultra $371.55 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $422.38 ↑ +18%
Magellan Behavioral Health $429.54 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $436.70 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $465.34 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $465.34 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $483.23 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $515.45 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $515.45 ↑ +44%
Cigna Behavioral Health $572.72 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $572.72 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $572.72 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $572.72 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $572.72 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $579.88 ↑ +62%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $587.04 ↑ +64%
Beechstreet Commercial $622.83 ↑ +74%
Multiplan Commercial $644.31 ↑ +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 nasal bones complete > 3 views at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $357.95 $7.08 – $629.99
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $357.95 $7.01 – $658.63
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $357.95 $7.01 – $658.63
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $357.95 $7.01 – $658.63
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $357.95 $7.08 – $658.63
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $357.95 $7.01 – $680.11
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $357.95 $7.01 – $680.11
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $357.95 $7.01 – $680.11

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