Albumin (human), 5%, 250 ml at Atrium Health Pineville

10628 Park Rd, Charlotte, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1417432840

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Dec 5, 2025 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$188.00

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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.

$376.00

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.

$19.55 with Partners vs $179.86 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 $19.55 ↓ -90%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $19.84 ↓ -89%
Alliance Behavioral Health $20.04 ↓ -89%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $20.21 ↓ -89%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $20.21 ↓ -89%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $20.21 ↓ -89%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $20.41 ↓ -89%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $20.72 ↓ -89%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $20.82 ↓ -89%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $29.25 ↓ -84%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $51.81 ↓ -72%
Humana Medicare Advantage $54.14 ↓ -71%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $54.93 ↓ -71%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $55.73 ↓ -70%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $55.90 ↓ -70%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $56.79 ↓ -70%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $59.92 ↓ -68%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $59.92 ↓ -68%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $59.92 ↓ -68%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $66.35 ↓ -65%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $66.86 ↓ -64%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $70.97 ↓ -62%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $78.20 ↓ -58%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $78.59 ↓ -58%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $79.57 ↓ -58%
Cigna Commercial NB $84.65 ↓ -55%
Employers Health Network Commercial $86.41 ↓ -54%
Aetna Broad Network $89.54 ↓ -52%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $92.08 ↓ -51%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $97.75 ↓ -48%
MedCost Ultra $105.18 ↓ -44%
MedCost PPO $116.91 ↓ -38%
Magellan Behavioral Health $117.30 ↓ -38%
GMMI Commercial $127.08 ↓ -32%
Quik Trip Commercial $127.08 ↓ -32%
Cigna Commercial SAR $131.96 ↓ -30%
ChoiceCare Commercial $140.76 ↓ -25%
Healthgram Commercial $156.40 ↓ -17%
Provider Select Commercial $158.36 ↓ -16%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $160.31 ↓ -15%
First Health Commercial $162.27 ↓ -14%
Aetna First Health Commercial $162.27 ↓ -14%
Beechstreet Commercial $175.95 ↓ -6%
Multiplan Commercial $179.86 ↓ -4%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Albumin (human), 5%, 250 ml at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $188.00 $37.15 – $195.50
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $188.00 $42.64 – $179.86
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $188.00 $19.55 – $179.86
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte $188.00 $42.64 – $175.95
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $188.00 $54.14 – $179.86
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $188.00 $29.25 – $185.73
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $188.00 $23.99 – $185.73
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $188.00 $27.37 – $185.73

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