Drug screening tapentadol 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

$25.38

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.

$50.75

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.

$2.47 with Partners vs $22.72 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 $2.47 ↓ -90%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $2.53 ↓ -90%
Alliance Behavioral Health $2.56 ↓ -90%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $2.58 ↓ -90%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $2.58 ↓ -90%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $2.58 ↓ -90%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $2.60 ↓ -90%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $2.63 ↓ -90%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $2.66 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $3.73 ↓ -85%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $5.68 ↓ -78%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $5.69 ↓ -78%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $6.55 ↓ -74%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $7.27 ↓ -71%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $7.49 ↓ -70%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $8.50 ↓ -67%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $8.97 ↓ -65%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $9.93 ↓ -61%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $10.05 ↓ -60%
Cigna Commercial NB $10.70 ↓ -58%
Employers Health Network Commercial $10.92 ↓ -57%
Aetna Broad Network $11.31 ↓ -55%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $11.56 ↓ -54%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $12.35 ↓ -51%
MedCost Ultra $12.47 ↓ -51%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $12.79 ↓ -50%
MedCost PPO $14.33 ↓ -44%
Magellan Behavioral Health $14.82 ↓ -42%
Quik Trip Commercial $16.06 ↓ -37%
GMMI Commercial $16.06 ↓ -37%
Cigna Commercial SAR $16.67 ↓ -34%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $17.78 ↓ -30%
ChoiceCare Commercial $17.78 ↓ -30%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $19.76 ↓ -22%
First Health Commercial $19.76 ↓ -22%
Aetna First Health Commercial $19.76 ↓ -22%
Cigna Behavioral Health $19.76 ↓ -22%
Healthgram Commercial $19.76 ↓ -22%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $20.25 ↓ -20%
Provider Select Commercial $21.49 ↓ -15%
Beechstreet Commercial $22.23 ↓ -12%
Multiplan Commercial $22.72 ↓ -10%
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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Drug screening tapentadol at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $25.38 $4.69 – $24.70
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $25.38 $5.39 – $22.72
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $25.38 $2.47 – $22.72
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte $25.38 $5.39 – $22.23
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $25.38 $7.56 – $22.72
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $25.38 $3.70 – $23.47
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $25.38 $3.03 – $23.47
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $25.38 $3.46 – $23.47

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