Clip ligating vesolock lg 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

$8,500.00

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.

$17,000.00

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.

$19.30 with Partners vs $177.56 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 $19.30 ↓ -100%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $19.78 ↓ -100%
Alliance Behavioral Health $19.98 ↓ -100%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $20.15 ↓ -100%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $20.15 ↓ -100%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $20.15 ↓ -100%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $20.34 ↓ -100%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $20.55 ↓ -100%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $20.75 ↓ -100%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $29.16 ↓ -100%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $30.51 ↓ -100%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $38.75 ↓ -100%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $50.99 ↓ -99%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $51.15 ↓ -99%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $56.82 ↓ -99%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $66.39 ↓ -99%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $70.06 ↓ -99%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $77.59 ↓ -99%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $78.55 ↓ -99%
Cigna Commercial NB $83.57 ↓ -99%
Employers Health Network Commercial $85.31 ↓ -99%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $87.62 ↓ -99%
Aetna Broad Network $88.39 ↓ -99%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $90.32 ↓ -99%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $96.50 ↓ -99%
MedCost Ultra $97.47 ↓ -99%
MedCost PPO $111.94 ↓ -99%
Magellan Behavioral Health $115.80 ↓ -99%
Quik Trip Commercial $125.45 ↓ -99%
GMMI Commercial $125.45 ↓ -99%
Cigna Commercial SAR $130.28 ↓ -98%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $138.96 ↓ -98%
ChoiceCare Commercial $138.96 ↓ -98%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $154.40 ↓ -98%
First Health Commercial $154.40 ↓ -98%
Aetna First Health Commercial $154.40 ↓ -98%
Cigna Behavioral Health $154.40 ↓ -98%
Healthgram Commercial $154.40 ↓ -98%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $158.26 ↓ -98%
Provider Select Commercial $167.91 ↓ -98%
Beechstreet Commercial $173.70 ↓ -98%
Multiplan Commercial $177.56 ↓ -98%
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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Clip ligating vesolock lg at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $8,500.00 $36.67 – $193.00
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $8,500.00 $34.68 – $177.56
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $8,500.00 $19.30 – $177.56
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte $8,500.00 $36.96 – $173.70
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $8,500.00 $59.04 – $177.56
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $8,500.00 $28.87 – $183.35
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $8,500.00 $23.68 – $183.35
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $8,500.00 $27.02 – $183.35

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