Tube trach fen sz 6 uncuffed 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

$108.50

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.

$217.00

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.

$4.00 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina vs $82.91 with Ortho Carolina — 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 $4.00 ↓ -96%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $4.85 ↓ -96%
Alliance Behavioral Health $4.90 ↓ -95%
Partners Managed Medicaid $4.90 ↓ -95%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $4.94 ↓ -95%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $4.94 ↓ -95%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $4.94 ↓ -95%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $4.99 ↓ -95%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $5.04 ↓ -95%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $5.09 ↓ -95%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $5.25 ↓ -95%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $5.90 ↓ -95%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $6.46 ↓ -94%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $6.91 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $7.26 ↓ -93%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $7.61 ↓ -93%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $8.08 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $8.94 ↓ -92%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $9.06 ↓ -92%
Cigna Commercial NB $9.63 ↓ -91%
Employers Health Network Commercial $9.83 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $10.08 ↓ -91%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $10.10 ↓ -91%
Aetna Broad Network $10.19 ↓ -91%
MedCost Ultra $10.90 ↓ -90%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $11.13 ↓ -90%
MedCost PPO $12.93 ↓ -88%
Magellan Behavioral Health $13.35 ↓ -88%
Aetna First Health Commercial $13.57 ↓ -87%
GMMI Commercial $14.46 ↓ -87%
Quik Trip Commercial $14.46 ↓ -87%
Cigna Commercial SAR $15.02 ↓ -86%
ChoiceCare Commercial $16.02 ↓ -85%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $16.02 ↓ -85%
Cigna Behavioral Health $17.80 ↓ -84%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $17.80 ↓ -84%
Healthgram Commercial $17.80 ↓ -84%
Provider Select Commercial $18.02 ↓ -83%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $18.25 ↓ -83%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $18.25 ↓ -83%
First Health Commercial $18.47 ↓ -83%
Beechstreet Commercial $20.03 ↓ -82%
Multiplan Commercial $20.47 ↓ -81%
Humana Medicare Advantage $67.66 ↓ -38%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $68.65 ↓ -37%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $69.65 ↓ -36%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $69.85 ↓ -36%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $82.91 ↓ -24%
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital —
Molina Managed Medicaid not published by hospital —
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital —

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Tube trach fen sz 6 uncuffed at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $108.50 $4.23 – $22.25
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $108.50 $2.23 – $82.91
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $108.50 $2.23 – $82.91
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte $108.50 $4.26 – $82.91
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $108.50 $6.81 – $69.65
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $108.50 $3.33 – $69.65
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $108.50 $2.73 – $82.91
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $108.50 $3.12 – $69.65

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