Ascenda two piece catheter at Atrium Health Mercy
2001 Vail Ave, Charlotte, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1376985135
$5,250.00
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.
$10,500.00
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.
$1,761.06 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina vs $9,016.00 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 |
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| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $1,761.06 | ↓ -66% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $2,137.38 | ↓ -59% |
| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $2,156.00 | ↓ -59% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $2,157.96 | ↓ -59% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $2,177.56 | ↓ -59% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $2,177.56 | ↓ -59% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $2,177.56 | ↓ -59% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $2,199.12 | ↓ -58% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $2,220.68 | ↓ -58% |
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $2,243.22 | ↓ -57% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $2,313.78 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $2,597.00 | ↓ -51% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $2,846.90 | ↓ -46% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $3,043.88 | ↓ -42% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $3,197.74 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $3,351.60 | ↓ -36% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $3,557.40 | ↓ -32% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $3,939.60 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial | $3,988.60 | ↓ -24% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $4,243.40 | ↓ -19% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $4,331.60 | ↓ -17% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $4,439.40 | ↓ -15% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $4,449.20 | ↓ -15% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $4,488.40 | ↓ -15% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $4,802.00 | ↓ -9% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $4,900.00 | ↓ -7% |
| MedCost | PPO | $5,693.80 | ↑ +8% |
| Magellan | Behavioral Health | $5,880.00 | ↑ +12% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $5,978.00 | ↑ +14% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $6,370.00 | ↑ +21% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $6,370.00 | ↑ +21% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $6,615.00 | ↑ +26% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Employee Plan | $7,056.00 | ↑ +34% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $7,056.00 | ↑ +34% |
| Healthgram | Commercial | $7,840.00 | ↑ +49% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Commercial | $7,840.00 | ↑ +49% |
| Cigna | Behavioral Health | $7,840.00 | ↑ +49% |
| Provider Select | Commercial | $7,938.00 | ↑ +51% |
| Lifesynch Community Choice Care | Behavioral Health | $8,036.00 | ↑ +53% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $8,036.00 | ↑ +53% |
| First Health | Commercial | $8,134.00 | ↑ +55% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $8,820.00 | ↑ +68% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $9,016.00 | ↑ +72% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna Healthspring | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Ortho Carolina | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan H | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Broughton Cardinal Partners | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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Ascenda two piece catheter at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $5,250.00 | $1,862.00 – $9,800.00 |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | $5,250.00 | $980.00 – $9,016.00 |
| Atrium Health University City | Charlotte | $5,250.00 | $980.00 – $9,016.00 |
| Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center | Charlotte | $5,250.00 | $1,876.70 – $8,820.00 |
| Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte | Charlotte | $5,250.00 | $2,997.82 – $9,016.00 |
| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $5,250.00 | $1,466.08 – $9,310.00 |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Concord | $5,250.00 | $1,202.46 – $9,310.00 |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Shelby | $5,250.00 | $1,372.00 – $9,310.00 |