Bypass temp external fem-fem at Atrium Health Mercy
2001 Vail Ave, Charlotte, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1376985135
$826.15
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.
$1,652.30
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.
$124.26 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina vs $879.37 with Molina — 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 | $124.26 | ↓ -85% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $150.82 | ↓ -82% |
| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $152.13 | ↓ -82% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $152.27 | ↓ -82% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $153.65 | ↓ -81% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $153.65 | ↓ -81% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $153.65 | ↓ -81% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $155.17 | ↓ -81% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $156.69 | ↓ -81% |
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $158.28 | ↓ -81% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $163.26 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $183.25 | ↓ -78% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $200.88 | ↓ -76% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $214.78 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $225.64 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $236.49 | ↓ -71% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $251.01 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $277.98 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial | $281.44 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $299.42 | ↓ -64% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $305.64 | ↓ -63% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $313.25 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $316.71 | ↓ -62% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $338.84 | ↓ -59% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $345.75 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $358.20 | ↓ -57% |
| MedCost | PPO | $401.76 | ↓ -51% |
| Magellan | Behavioral Health | $414.90 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $421.82 | ↓ -49% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $449.48 | ↓ -46% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $449.48 | ↓ -46% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $466.76 | ↓ -44% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Employee Plan | $497.88 | ↓ -40% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $497.88 | ↓ -40% |
| Healthgram | Commercial | $553.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Behavioral Health | $553.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Commercial | $553.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Provider Select | Commercial | $560.12 | ↓ -32% |
| Lifesynch Community Choice Care | Behavioral Health | $567.03 | ↓ -31% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $567.03 | ↓ -31% |
| First Health | Commercial | $573.95 | ↓ -31% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $599.79 | ↓ -27% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $608.61 | ↓ -26% |
| Cigna Healthspring | Medicare Advantage | $617.43 | ↓ -25% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $619.25 | ↓ -25% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $622.35 | ↓ -25% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $636.18 | ↓ -23% |
| Ortho Carolina | Commercial | $735.03 | ↓ -11% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $879.37 | ↑ +6% |
| Broughton Cardinal Partners | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan H | not published by hospital | — |
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Bypass temp external fem-fem at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $826.15 | $131.39 – $691.50 |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | $826.15 | $69.15 – $735.03 |
| Atrium Health University City | Charlotte | $826.15 | $69.15 – $735.03 |
| Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center | Charlotte | $826.15 | $132.42 – $879.37 |
| Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte | Charlotte | $826.15 | $211.53 – $649.17 |
| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $826.15 | $103.45 – $656.93 |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Concord | $826.15 | $84.85 – $735.03 |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Shelby | $826.15 | $96.81 – $656.93 |