Tissue matrix 1.8x1.8cm collagen dermacell porous 4sq cm cost per sq cm 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

$537.50

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.

$1,075.00

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.

$106.92 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina vs $547.40 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
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $106.92 ↓ -80%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $129.77 ↓ -76%
Partners Managed Medicaid $130.90 ↓ -76%
Alliance Behavioral Health $131.02 ↓ -76%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $132.21 ↓ -75%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $132.21 ↓ -75%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $132.21 ↓ -75%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $133.52 ↓ -75%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $134.83 ↓ -75%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $136.20 ↓ -75%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $140.48 ↓ -74%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $157.68 ↓ -71%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $172.85 ↓ -68%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $184.81 ↓ -66%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $194.15 ↓ -64%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $203.49 ↓ -62%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $215.99 ↓ -60%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $239.19 ↓ -55%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $242.17 ↓ -55%
Cigna Commercial NB $257.64 ↓ -52%
Employers Health Network Commercial $262.99 ↓ -51%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $269.54 ↓ -50%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $270.13 ↓ -50%
Aetna Broad Network $272.51 ↓ -49%
MedCost Ultra $291.55 ↓ -46%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $297.50 ↓ -45%
MedCost PPO $345.70 ↓ -36%
Magellan Behavioral Health $357.00 ↓ -34%
Aetna First Health Commercial $362.95 ↓ -32%
Quik Trip Commercial $386.75 ↓ -28%
GMMI Commercial $386.75 ↓ -28%
Cigna Commercial SAR $401.63 ↓ -25%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $428.40 ↓ -20%
ChoiceCare Commercial $428.40 ↓ -20%
Healthgram Commercial $476.00 ↓ -11%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $476.00 ↓ -11%
Cigna Behavioral Health $476.00 ↓ -11%
Provider Select Commercial $481.95 ↓ -10%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $487.90 ↓ -9%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $487.90 ↓ -9%
First Health Commercial $493.85 ↓ -8%
Beechstreet Commercial $535.50 ↓ -0%
Multiplan Commercial $547.40 ↑ +2%
Aetna Medicare Advantage not published by hospital —
Humana Medicare Advantage not published by hospital —
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage not published by hospital —
Molina Managed Medicaid not published by hospital —
Ortho Carolina Commercial not published by hospital —
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital —
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage not published by hospital —
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital —

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Tissue matrix 1.8x1.8cm collagen dermacell porous 4sq cm cost per sq cm at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $537.50 $113.05 – $595.00
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $537.50 $59.50 – $547.40
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $537.50 $59.50 – $547.40
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte $537.50 $113.94 – $535.50
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $537.50 $182.01 – $547.40
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $537.50 $89.01 – $565.25
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $537.50 $73.01 – $565.25
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $537.50 $83.30 – $565.25

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