Brace knee support neoprene padded open patella med 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

$14.50

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.

$29.00

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.

$2.90 with Partners vs $183.33 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
Partners Managed Medicaid $2.90 ↓ -80%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $2.94 ↓ -80%
Alliance Behavioral Health $2.97 ↓ -80%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $3.00 ↓ -79%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $3.00 ↓ -79%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $3.00 ↓ -79%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $3.03 ↓ -79%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $3.07 ↓ -79%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $3.09 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $4.34 ↓ -70%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $5.38 ↓ -63%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $7.16 ↓ -51%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $7.69 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $8.42 ↓ -42%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $9.42 ↓ -35%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $9.92 ↓ -32%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $10.53 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $11.66 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $11.80 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $12.56 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $12.82 ↓ -12%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $13.17 ↓ -9%
Aetna Broad Network $13.28 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $13.66 ↓ -6%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $14.50 ↑ +0%
MedCost Ultra $15.60 ↑ +8%
MedCost PPO $17.34 ↑ +20%
Magellan Behavioral Health $17.40 ↑ +20%
Quik Trip Commercial $18.85 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $18.85 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $19.58 ↑ +35%
ChoiceCare Commercial $20.88 ↑ +44%
Healthgram Commercial $23.20 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $23.49 ↑ +62%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $23.78 ↑ +64%
Aetna First Health Commercial $24.07 ↑ +66%
First Health Commercial $24.07 ↑ +66%
Beechstreet Commercial $26.10 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $26.68 ↑ +84%
Humana Medicare Advantage $149.59 ↑ +932%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $151.79 ↑ +947%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $153.99 ↑ +962%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $154.45 ↑ +965%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $183.33 ↑ +1164%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Brace knee support neoprene padded open patella med at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $14.50 $5.51 – $29.00
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $14.50 $5.21 – $183.33
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $14.50 $2.90 – $183.33
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte $14.50 $5.55 – $183.33
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $14.50 $8.87 – $153.99
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $14.50 $4.34 – $153.99
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $14.50 $3.56 – $183.33
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $14.50 $4.06 – $155.33

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