Dialysis repeated eval 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

$564.68

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.

$1,129.35

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.

$90.73 with Partners vs $1,039.00 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.

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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 $90.73 ↓ -84%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $91.64 ↓ -84%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $91.64 ↓ -84%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $91.64 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $91.64 ↓ -84%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $91.64 ↓ -84%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $91.64 ↓ -84%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $91.64 ↓ -84%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $92.54 ↓ -84%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $113.33 ↓ -80%
Humana Medicare Advantage $115.59 ↓ -80%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $117.29 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $117.62 ↓ -79%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $141.66 ↓ -75%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $226.45 ↓ -60%
ChoiceCare Commercial $226.45 ↓ -60%
Alliance Behavioral Health $248.68 ↓ -56%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $281.97 ↓ -50%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $299.28 ↓ -47%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $307.44 ↓ -46%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $328.08 ↓ -42%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $375.40 ↓ -34%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $386.24 ↓ -32%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $409.95 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $454.00 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $459.65 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $489.01 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $499.17 ↓ -12%
Aetna Broad Network $517.24 ↓ -8%
MedCost Ultra $553.38 ↓ -2%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $564.68 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $585.00 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $656.15 ↑ +16%
Magellan Behavioral Health $677.61 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $688.90 ↑ +22%
Quik Trip Commercial $734.08 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $734.08 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $762.31 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $813.13 ↑ +44%
Healthgram Commercial $903.48 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $903.48 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $903.48 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $914.77 ↑ +62%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $926.07 ↑ +64%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $926.07 ↑ +64%
First Health Commercial $937.36 ↑ +66%
Beechstreet Commercial $1,016.42 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $1,039.00 ↑ +84%
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Molina Managed Medicaid not published by hospital

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Dialysis repeated eval at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $564.68 $91.64 – $993.83
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $564.68 $90.73 – $1,039.00
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $564.68 $90.73 – $1,039.00
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte $564.68 $90.73 – $1,016.42
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $564.68 $91.64 – $1,039.00
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $564.68 $90.73 – $1,072.88
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $564.68 $90.73 – $1,072.88
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $564.68 $90.73 – $1,072.88

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