Fresh frozen plasma thawing ea un 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

$33.78

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.

$67.55

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.

$6.76 with Partners vs $203.73 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.

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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 $6.76 ↓ -80%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $6.92 ↓ -80%
Alliance Behavioral Health $6.99 ↓ -79%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $7.05 ↓ -79%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $7.05 ↓ -79%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $7.05 ↓ -79%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $7.12 ↓ -79%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $7.19 ↓ -79%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $7.26 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $10.21 ↓ -70%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $15.53 ↓ -54%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $15.57 ↓ -54%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $17.90 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $19.89 ↓ -41%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $20.49 ↓ -39%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $23.24 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $24.52 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $27.16 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $27.49 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $29.25 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $29.86 ↓ -12%
Aetna Broad Network $30.94 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $31.61 ↓ -6%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $33.78 ↑ +0%
MedCost Ultra $34.11 ↑ +1%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $34.99 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $39.18 ↑ +16%
Magellan Behavioral Health $40.53 ↑ +20%
Quik Trip Commercial $43.91 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $43.91 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $45.60 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $48.64 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $48.64 ↑ +44%
Healthgram Commercial $54.04 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $54.04 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $54.04 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $54.04 ↑ +60%
Aetna First Health Commercial $54.04 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $55.39 ↑ +64%
Provider Select Commercial $58.77 ↑ +74%
Beechstreet Commercial $60.80 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $62.15 ↑ +84%
Humana Medicare Advantage $166.24 ↑ +392%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $168.68 ↑ +399%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $171.13 ↑ +407%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $171.63 ↑ +408%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $203.73 ↑ +503%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Fresh frozen plasma thawing ea un at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $33.78 $12.83 – $67.55
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $33.78 $13.50 – $203.73
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $33.78 $6.76 – $203.73
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte $33.78 $13.50 – $203.73
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $33.78 $20.66 – $179.93
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $33.78 $10.11 – $171.13
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $33.78 $8.29 – $203.73
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $33.78 $9.46 – $168.96

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