Heparin-protamine tolerance 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

$37.75

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.

$75.50

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.

$7.55 with Partners vs $69.46 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 $7.55 ↓ -80%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $7.74 ↓ -79%
Alliance Behavioral Health $7.81 ↓ -79%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $7.88 ↓ -79%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $7.88 ↓ -79%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $7.88 ↓ -79%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $7.96 ↓ -79%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $8.04 ↓ -79%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $8.12 ↓ -78%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $11.41 ↓ -70%
Humana Medicare Advantage $13.35 ↓ -65%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $13.55 ↓ -64%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $13.74 ↓ -64%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $13.79 ↓ -63%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $16.36 ↓ -57%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $17.36 ↓ -54%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $17.40 ↓ -54%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $20.01 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $22.23 ↓ -41%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $22.90 ↓ -39%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $25.97 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $27.41 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $30.35 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $30.73 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $32.69 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $33.37 ↓ -12%
Aetna Broad Network $34.58 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $35.33 ↓ -6%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $37.75 ↑ +0%
MedCost Ultra $38.13 ↑ +1%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $39.11 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $43.79 ↑ +16%
Magellan Behavioral Health $45.30 ↑ +20%
Quik Trip Commercial $49.08 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $49.08 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $50.96 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $54.36 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $54.36 ↑ +44%
Healthgram Commercial $60.40 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $60.40 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $60.40 ↑ +60%
Aetna First Health Commercial $60.40 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $60.40 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $61.91 ↑ +64%
Provider Select Commercial $65.69 ↑ +74%
Beechstreet Commercial $67.95 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $69.46 ↑ +84%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Heparin-protamine tolerance at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $37.75 $14.35 – $66.44
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $37.75 $13.35 – $69.46
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $37.75 $7.55 – $69.46
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte $37.75 $13.35 – $67.95
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $37.75 $13.35 – $69.46
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $37.75 $11.29 – $71.73
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $37.75 $9.26 – $71.73
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $37.75 $10.57 – $71.73

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