Cell count body fluid at Atrium Health Mercy

2001 Vail Ave, Charlotte, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1376985135

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Dec 4, 2025 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$94.73

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.

$189.45

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.

$4.81 with Humana vs $174.29 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
Humana Medicare Advantage $4.81 ↓ -95%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $4.89 ↓ -95%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $4.96 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $4.97 ↓ -95%
Partners Managed Medicaid $5.84 ↓ -94%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $5.90 ↓ -94%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $5.90 ↓ -94%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $5.90 ↓ -94%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $5.90 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $5.90 ↓ -94%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $5.90 ↓ -94%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $5.90 ↓ -94%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $5.90 ↓ -94%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $5.96 ↓ -94%
Molina Managed Medicaid $7.00 ↓ -93%
Alliance Behavioral Health $41.72 ↓ -56%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $50.20 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $55.04 ↓ -42%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $62.61 ↓ -34%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $62.97 ↓ -34%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $64.79 ↓ -32%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $68.77 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $76.16 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $77.11 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $82.03 ↓ -13%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $82.87 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $83.74 ↓ -12%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $85.82 ↓ -9%
Aetna Broad Network $86.77 ↓ -8%
MedCost Ultra $92.83 ↓ -2%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $94.73 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $98.14 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $110.07 ↑ +16%
Magellan Behavioral Health $113.67 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $115.56 ↑ +22%
Quik Trip Commercial $123.14 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $123.14 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $127.88 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $136.40 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $136.40 ↑ +44%
Cigna Behavioral Health $151.56 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $151.56 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $151.56 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $153.45 ↑ +62%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $155.35 ↑ +64%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $155.35 ↑ +64%
First Health Commercial $157.24 ↑ +66%
Beechstreet Commercial $170.51 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $174.29 ↑ +84%
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital

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Cell count body fluid at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $94.73 $5.90 – $166.72
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $94.73 $4.81 – $174.29
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $94.73 $4.81 – $174.29
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Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $94.73 $4.81 – $179.98
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