Group health education 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

$91.48

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.

$182.95

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.

$18.30 with Partners vs $168.31 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 $18.30 ↓ -80%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $18.75 ↓ -80%
Alliance Behavioral Health $18.94 ↓ -79%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $19.10 ↓ -79%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $19.10 ↓ -79%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $19.10 ↓ -79%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $19.28 ↓ -79%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $19.48 ↓ -79%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $19.67 ↓ -78%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $27.64 ↓ -70%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $42.06 ↓ -54%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $42.17 ↓ -54%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $48.48 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $53.86 ↓ -41%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $55.49 ↓ -39%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $62.93 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $66.41 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $73.55 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $74.46 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $79.22 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $80.86 ↓ -12%
Aetna Broad Network $83.79 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $85.62 ↓ -6%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $91.48 ↑ +0%
MedCost Ultra $92.39 ↑ +1%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $94.77 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $106.11 ↑ +16%
Magellan Behavioral Health $109.77 ↑ +20%
Quik Trip Commercial $118.92 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $118.92 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $123.49 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $131.72 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $131.72 ↑ +44%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $146.36 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $146.36 ↑ +60%
Aetna First Health Commercial $146.36 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $146.36 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $146.36 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $150.02 ↑ +64%
Provider Select Commercial $159.17 ↑ +74%
Beechstreet Commercial $164.66 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $168.31 ↑ +84%
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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Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $91.48 $34.76 – $182.95
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $91.48 $39.90 – $168.31
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