Albumin (human), 25%, 50ml at Atrium Health University City
8800 N Tryon St, Charlotte, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1346297892
$244.70
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$489.40
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.
?
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
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $19.55 | ↓ -92% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $20.04 | ↓ -92% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $20.23 | ↓ -92% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $20.41 | ↓ -92% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $20.41 | ↓ -92% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $20.41 | ↓ -92% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $20.61 | ↓ -92% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $20.82 | ↓ -91% |
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $21.02 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $29.54 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $51.81 | ↓ -79% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $57.56 | ↓ -76% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $58.81 | ↓ -76% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $58.81 | ↓ -76% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $58.81 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $67.25 | ↓ -73% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $70.97 | ↓ -71% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $78.20 | ↓ -68% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $78.59 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial | $79.57 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $84.65 | ↓ -65% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $86.41 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $89.54 | ↓ -63% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $91.49 | ↓ -63% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $97.75 | ↓ -60% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $98.73 | ↓ -60% |
| MedCost | PPO | $113.39 | ↓ -54% |
| Magellan | Behavioral Health | $117.30 | ↓ -52% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $127.08 | ↓ -48% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $127.08 | ↓ -48% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $131.96 | ↓ -46% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Employee Plan | $140.76 | ↓ -42% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $140.76 | ↓ -42% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Commercial | $156.40 | ↓ -36% |
| First Health | Commercial | $156.40 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $156.40 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | Behavioral Health | $156.40 | ↓ -36% |
| Healthgram | Commercial | $156.40 | ↓ -36% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $160.31 | ↓ -34% |
| Provider Select | Commercial | $170.09 | ↓ -30% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $175.95 | ↓ -28% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $179.86 | ↓ -26% |
| 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
Comments
Albumin (human), 25%, 50ml at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $244.70 | $37.15 – $195.50 |
| Atrium Health Mercy | Charlotte | $244.70 | $42.64 – $179.86 |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | $244.70 | $19.55 – $179.86 |
| Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center | Charlotte | $244.70 | $42.64 – $175.95 |
| Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte | Charlotte | $244.70 | $55.15 – $179.86 |
| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $244.70 | $29.25 – $185.73 |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Concord | $244.70 | $23.99 – $185.73 |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Shelby | $244.70 | $27.37 – $185.73 |