Heparin bolus from bag at Atrium Health Pineville
10628 Park Rd, Charlotte, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1417432840
$63.95
Cash price 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.
$127.90
Gross charge 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.
$0.33 with United Healthcare vs $18.95 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.
Full explanation →
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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.
Full explanation →Payer ?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. Full explanation → |
Plan ?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. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $0.33 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial | $0.54 | ↓ -99% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $0.62 | ↓ -99% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $0.62 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $0.64 | ↓ -99% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $0.65 | ↓ -99% |
| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $2.06 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $2.09 | ↓ -97% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $2.11 | ↓ -97% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $2.13 | ↓ -97% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $2.13 | ↓ -97% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $2.13 | ↓ -97% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $2.15 | ↓ -97% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $2.18 | ↓ -97% |
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $2.19 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $3.08 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $5.46 | ↓ -91% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $5.98 | ↓ -91% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $6.31 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $7.05 | ↓ -89% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $7.48 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $8.24 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $8.92 | ↓ -86% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $9.11 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $9.43 | ↓ -85% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $10.30 | ↓ -84% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $11.08 | ↓ -83% |
| MedCost | PPO | $12.32 | ↓ -81% |
| Magellan | Behavioral Health | $12.36 | ↓ -81% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $13.39 | ↓ -79% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $13.39 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $13.91 | ↓ -78% |
| Healthgram | Commercial | $16.48 | ↓ -74% |
| Provider Select | Commercial | $16.69 | ↓ -74% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $16.89 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $17.10 | ↓ -73% |
| First Health | Commercial | $17.10 | ↓ -73% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $18.54 | ↓ -71% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $18.95 | ↓ -70% |
| Ortho Carolina | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna Healthspring | Medicare Advantage | 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 | — |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Heparin bolus from bag at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $63.95 | $0.65 – $20.60 |
| Atrium Health Mercy | Charlotte | $63.95 | $0.30 – $18.95 |
| Atrium Health University City | Charlotte | $63.95 | $0.33 – $18.95 |
| Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center | Charlotte | $63.95 | $0.30 – $18.54 |
| Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte | Charlotte | $63.95 | $0.33 – $18.95 |
| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $63.95 | $0.33 – $19.57 |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Concord | $63.95 | $0.33 – $19.57 |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Shelby | $63.95 | $0.33 – $19.57 |