Disability dlco 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

$89.40

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.

$178.80

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.

$7.06 with Partners vs $464.82 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.

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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 $7.06 ↓ -92%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $7.13 ↓ -92%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $7.13 ↓ -92%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $7.13 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $7.13 ↓ -92%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $7.13 ↓ -92%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $7.13 ↓ -92%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $7.13 ↓ -92%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $7.20 ↓ -92%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $11.02 ↓ -88%
Humana Medicare Advantage $11.24 ↓ -87%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $11.41 ↓ -87%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $11.44 ↓ -87%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $13.78 ↓ -85%
Alliance Behavioral Health $39.37 ↓ -56%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $47.38 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $51.94 ↓ -42%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $59.09 ↓ -34%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $59.43 ↓ -34%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $61.15 ↓ -32%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $64.90 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $71.88 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $72.77 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $77.42 ↓ -13%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $78.21 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $79.03 ↓ -12%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $81.00 ↓ -9%
Aetna Broad Network $81.89 ↓ -8%
MedCost Ultra $87.61 ↓ -2%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $89.40 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $92.62 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $103.88 ↑ +16%
Magellan Behavioral Health $107.28 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $109.07 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $116.22 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $116.22 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $120.69 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $128.74 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $128.74 ↑ +44%
Healthgram Commercial $143.04 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $143.04 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $143.04 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $144.83 ↑ +62%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $146.62 ↑ +64%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $146.62 ↑ +64%
First Health Commercial $148.40 ↑ +66%
Beechstreet Commercial $160.92 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $164.50 ↑ +84%
Molina Managed Medicaid $464.82 ↑ +420%
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital

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Disability dlco at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $89.40 $7.13 – $157.34
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $89.40 $7.06 – $164.50
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $89.40 $7.06 – $164.50
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte $89.40 $7.06 – $464.82
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $89.40 $7.13 – $164.50
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $89.40 $7.06 – $169.86
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $89.40 $7.06 – $169.86
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $89.40 $7.06 – $169.86

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