Collar cerv ascend 172 reg at Atrium Health University City
8800 N Tryon St, Charlotte, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1346297892
$17.50
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.
$35.00
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.
$2.68 with Partners vs $215.34 with Ortho Carolina — 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 |
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| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $2.68 | ↓ -85% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $2.74 | ↓ -84% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $2.77 | ↓ -84% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $2.80 | ↓ -84% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $2.80 | ↓ -84% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $2.80 | ↓ -84% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $2.82 | ↓ -84% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $2.85 | ↓ -84% |
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $2.88 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $4.05 | ↓ -77% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $4.23 | ↓ -76% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $5.38 | ↓ -69% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $7.08 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $7.10 | ↓ -59% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $7.88 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $9.21 | ↓ -47% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $9.72 | ↓ -44% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $10.77 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial | $10.90 | ↓ -38% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $11.60 | ↓ -34% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $11.84 | ↓ -32% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $12.16 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $12.27 | ↓ -30% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $12.53 | ↓ -28% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $13.39 | ↓ -23% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $13.52 | ↓ -23% |
| MedCost | PPO | $15.53 | ↓ -11% |
| Magellan | Behavioral Health | $16.07 | ↓ -8% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $17.41 | ↓ -1% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $17.41 | ↓ -1% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $18.08 | ↑ +3% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Employee Plan | $19.28 | ↑ +10% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $19.28 | ↑ +10% |
| Healthgram | Commercial | $21.42 | ↑ +22% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Commercial | $21.42 | ↑ +22% |
| Cigna | Behavioral Health | $21.42 | ↑ +22% |
| First Health | Commercial | $21.42 | ↑ +22% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $21.42 | ↑ +22% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $21.96 | ↑ +25% |
| Provider Select | Commercial | $23.30 | ↑ +33% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $24.10 | ↑ +38% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $24.64 | ↑ +41% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $175.72 | ↑ +904% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $178.30 | ↑ +919% |
| Cigna Healthspring | Medicare Advantage | $180.88 | ↑ +934% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $181.42 | ↑ +937% |
| Ortho Carolina | Commercial | $215.34 | ↑ +1131% |
| Broughton Cardinal Partners | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan H | not published by hospital | — |
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Collar cerv ascend 172 reg at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $17.50 | $5.09 – $26.78 |
| Atrium Health Mercy | Charlotte | $17.50 | $4.81 – $215.34 |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | $17.50 | $2.68 – $215.34 |
| Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center | Charlotte | $17.50 | $5.13 – $215.34 |
| Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte | Charlotte | $17.50 | $8.19 – $180.88 |
| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $17.50 | $4.01 – $180.88 |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Concord | $17.50 | $3.29 – $215.34 |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Shelby | $17.50 | $3.75 – $200.24 |