Azithromycin 500 mg intravenous solution at Atrium Health University City

8800 N Tryon St, Charlotte, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1346297892

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Dec 5, 2025 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$38.55

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.

$77.10

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.

$4.66 with Partners vs $42.87 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
Partners Managed Medicaid $4.66 ↓ -88%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $4.78 ↓ -88%
Alliance Behavioral Health $4.82 ↓ -87%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $4.87 ↓ -87%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $4.87 ↓ -87%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $4.87 ↓ -87%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $4.91 ↓ -87%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $4.96 ↓ -87%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $5.01 ↓ -87%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $7.04 ↓ -82%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $12.35 ↓ -68%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $13.72 ↓ -64%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $14.02 ↓ -64%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $14.02 ↓ -64%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $14.02 ↓ -64%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $16.03 ↓ -58%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $16.92 ↓ -56%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $18.64 ↓ -52%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $18.73 ↓ -51%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $18.97 ↓ -51%
Cigna Commercial NB $20.18 ↓ -48%
Employers Health Network Commercial $20.60 ↓ -47%
Aetna Broad Network $21.34 ↓ -45%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $21.81 ↓ -43%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $23.30 ↓ -40%
MedCost Ultra $23.53 ↓ -39%
MedCost PPO $27.03 ↓ -30%
Magellan Behavioral Health $27.96 ↓ -27%
Quik Trip Commercial $30.29 ↓ -21%
GMMI Commercial $30.29 ↓ -21%
Cigna Commercial SAR $31.46 ↓ -18%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $33.55 ↓ -13%
ChoiceCare Commercial $33.55 ↓ -13%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $37.28 ↓ -3%
First Health Commercial $37.28 ↓ -3%
Aetna First Health Commercial $37.28 ↓ -3%
Cigna Behavioral Health $37.28 ↓ -3%
Healthgram Commercial $37.28 ↓ -3%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $38.21 ↓ -1%
Provider Select Commercial $40.54 ↑ +5%
Beechstreet Commercial $41.94 ↑ +9%
Multiplan Commercial $42.87 ↑ +11%
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

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Azithromycin 500 mg intravenous solution at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $38.55 $8.85 – $46.60
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $38.55 $2.89 – $42.87
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $38.55 $4.66 – $42.87
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte $38.55 $2.89 – $41.94
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $38.55 $13.15 – $42.87
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $38.55 $6.97 – $44.27
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $38.55 $5.72 – $44.27
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $38.55 $6.52 – $44.27

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