Gamma glutamyltransferase 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

$55.28

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.

$110.55

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.

$7.34 with Humana vs $101.71 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 $7.34 ↓ -87%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $7.45 ↓ -87%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $7.56 ↓ -86%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $7.58 ↓ -86%
Partners Managed Medicaid $8.88 ↓ -84%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $8.97 ↓ -84%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $8.97 ↓ -84%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $8.97 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $8.97 ↓ -84%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $8.97 ↓ -84%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $8.97 ↓ -84%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $8.97 ↓ -84%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $9.00 ↓ -84%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $9.06 ↓ -84%
Molina Managed Medicaid $10.67 ↓ -81%
Alliance Behavioral Health $24.34 ↓ -56%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $29.30 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $32.11 ↓ -42%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $36.54 ↓ -34%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $36.75 ↓ -34%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $37.81 ↓ -32%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $40.13 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $44.44 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $44.99 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $47.87 ↓ -13%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $48.35 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $48.86 ↓ -12%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $50.08 ↓ -9%
Aetna Broad Network $50.63 ↓ -8%
MedCost Ultra $54.17 ↓ -2%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $55.28 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $57.26 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $64.23 ↑ +16%
Magellan Behavioral Health $66.33 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $67.44 ↑ +22%
Quik Trip Commercial $71.86 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $71.86 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $74.62 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $79.60 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $79.60 ↑ +44%
Cigna Behavioral Health $88.44 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $88.44 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $88.44 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $89.55 ↑ +62%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $90.65 ↑ +64%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $90.65 ↑ +64%
First Health Commercial $91.76 ↑ +66%
Beechstreet Commercial $99.50 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $101.71 ↑ +84%
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital

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