Biopsy bone trocar/needle superficial 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

$1,049.65

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.

$2,099.30

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.

$60.36 with Trillium vs $1,931.36 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
Trillium Managed Medicaid $60.36 ↓ -94%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $60.96 ↓ -94%
Partners Managed Medicaid $60.96 ↓ -94%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $60.96 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $60.96 ↓ -94%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $60.96 ↓ -94%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $60.96 ↓ -94%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $60.96 ↓ -94%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $61.57 ↓ -94%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $80.18 ↓ -92%
Humana Medicare Advantage $81.78 ↓ -92%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $82.99 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $83.21 ↓ -92%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $100.23 ↓ -90%
Alliance Behavioral Health $215.18 ↓ -79%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $389.42 ↓ -63%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $518.32 ↓ -51%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $556.31 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $609.85 ↓ -42%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $682.06 ↓ -35%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $717.96 ↓ -32%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $762.05 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $843.92 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $854.42 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $909.00 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $927.89 ↓ -12%
Aetna Broad Network $961.48 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $988.77 ↓ -6%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $1,049.65 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $1,087.44 ↑ +4%
MedCost Ultra $1,129.42 ↑ +8%
MedCost PPO $1,255.38 ↑ +20%
Magellan Behavioral Health $1,259.58 ↑ +20%
GMMI Commercial $1,364.55 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $1,364.55 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $1,417.03 ↑ +35%
ChoiceCare Commercial $1,511.50 ↑ +44%
Healthgram Commercial $1,679.44 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $1,700.43 ↑ +62%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $1,721.43 ↑ +64%
First Health Commercial $1,742.42 ↑ +66%
Aetna First Health Commercial $1,742.42 ↑ +66%
Beechstreet Commercial $1,889.37 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $1,931.36 ↑ +84%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Biopsy bone trocar/needle superficial at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $1,049.65 $60.96 – $1,847.38
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $1,049.65 $60.36 – $1,931.36
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $1,049.65 $60.36 – $1,931.36
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte $1,049.65 $60.36 – $1,889.37
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $1,049.65 $60.96 – $1,931.36
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $1,049.65 $60.36 – $1,994.34
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $1,049.65 $60.36 – $1,994.34
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $1,049.65 $60.36 – $1,994.34

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