Str markers specimen anal 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

$1,724.40

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.

$3,448.80

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.

$237.73 with Humana vs $3,172.90 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
Humana Medicare Advantage $237.73 ↓ -86%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $241.23 ↓ -86%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $244.72 ↓ -86%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $245.45 ↓ -86%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $291.34 ↓ -83%
Partners Managed Medicaid $344.88 ↓ -80%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $350.05 ↓ -80%
Alliance Behavioral Health $353.50 ↓ -80%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $356.61 ↓ -79%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $356.61 ↓ -79%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $356.61 ↓ -79%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $360.05 ↓ -79%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $365.57 ↓ -79%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $367.30 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $515.94 ↓ -70%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $913.93 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $1,001.88 ↓ -42%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $1,002.22 ↓ -42%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $1,019.12 ↓ -41%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $1,179.49 ↓ -32%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $1,251.91 ↓ -27%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $1,340.89 ↓ -22%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $1,386.42 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $1,403.66 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $1,493.33 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $1,524.37 ↓ -12%
Aetna Broad Network $1,579.55 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $1,624.38 ↓ -6%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $1,724.40 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $1,786.48 ↑ +4%
MedCost Ultra $1,855.45 ↑ +8%
MedCost PPO $2,062.38 ↑ +20%
Magellan Behavioral Health $2,069.28 ↑ +20%
GMMI Commercial $2,241.72 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $2,241.72 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $2,327.94 ↑ +35%
ChoiceCare Commercial $2,483.14 ↑ +44%
Healthgram Commercial $2,759.04 ↑ +60%
Provider Select Commercial $2,793.53 ↑ +62%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $2,828.02 ↑ +64%
First Health Commercial $2,862.50 ↑ +66%
Aetna First Health Commercial $2,862.50 ↑ +66%
Beechstreet Commercial $3,103.92 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $3,172.90 ↑ +84%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $1,724.40 $655.27 – $3,448.80
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $1,724.40 $237.73 – $3,172.90
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $1,724.40 $237.73 – $3,172.90
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Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $1,724.40 $237.73 – $3,276.36

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