Actigraphy testing at Atrium Health Mercy
2001 Vail Ave, Charlotte, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1376985135
$162.73
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.
$325.45
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.
$38.83 with Cigna Healthspring vs $299.41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna Healthspring | Medicare Advantage | $38.83 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $39.61 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $40.19 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $40.30 | ↓ -75% |
| Ortho Carolina | Commercial | $48.54 | ↓ -70% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $70.98 | ↓ -56% |
| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $71.60 | ↓ -56% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $71.66 | ↓ -56% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $72.31 | ↓ -56% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $72.31 | ↓ -56% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $72.31 | ↓ -56% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $73.03 | ↓ -55% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $73.75 | ↓ -55% |
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $74.50 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $86.24 | ↓ -47% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $94.54 | ↓ -42% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $106.19 | ↓ -35% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $107.56 | ↓ -34% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $108.18 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $111.30 | ↓ -32% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $118.14 | ↓ -27% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $130.83 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial | $132.46 | ↓ -19% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $140.92 | ↓ -13% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $142.35 | ↓ -13% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $143.85 | ↓ -12% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $147.43 | ↓ -9% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $149.06 | ↓ -8% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $155.77 | ↓ -4% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $159.47 | ↓ -2% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $162.73 | ↑ +0% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $168.58 | ↑ +4% |
| MedCost | PPO | $189.09 | ↑ +16% |
| Magellan | Behavioral Health | $195.27 | ↑ +20% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $198.52 | ↑ +22% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $211.54 | ↑ +30% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $211.54 | ↑ +30% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $219.68 | ↑ +35% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Employee Plan | $234.32 | ↑ +44% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $234.32 | ↑ +44% |
| Cigna | Behavioral Health | $260.36 | ↑ +60% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Commercial | $260.36 | ↑ +60% |
| Healthgram | Commercial | $260.36 | ↑ +60% |
| Provider Select | Commercial | $263.61 | ↑ +62% |
| Lifesynch Community Choice Care | Behavioral Health | $266.87 | ↑ +64% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $266.87 | ↑ +64% |
| First Health | Commercial | $270.12 | ↑ +66% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $292.91 | ↑ +80% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $299.41 | ↑ +84% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan H | not published by hospital | — |
| Broughton Cardinal Partners | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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Actigraphy testing at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $162.73 | $38.83 – $325.45 |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | $162.73 | $32.55 – $299.41 |
| Atrium Health University City | Charlotte | $162.73 | $32.55 – $299.41 |
| Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center | Charlotte | $162.73 | $38.83 – $292.91 |
| Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte | Charlotte | $162.73 | $38.83 – $299.41 |
| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $162.73 | $38.83 – $309.18 |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Concord | $162.73 | $38.83 – $309.18 |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Shelby | $162.73 | $38.83 – $309.18 |