Immobilizer shldr dlx str 24-36in med 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

$43.00

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.

$86.00

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.

$1.29 with Partners vs $94.00 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 $1.29 ↓ -97%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $1.32 ↓ -97%
Alliance Behavioral Health $1.34 ↓ -97%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $1.35 ↓ -97%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $1.35 ↓ -97%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $1.35 ↓ -97%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $1.36 ↓ -97%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $1.37 ↓ -97%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $1.39 ↓ -97%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $1.95 ↓ -95%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $2.04 ↓ -95%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $2.59 ↓ -94%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $3.41 ↓ -92%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $3.42 ↓ -92%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $3.80 ↓ -91%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $4.44 ↓ -90%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $4.68 ↓ -89%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $5.19 ↓ -88%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $5.25 ↓ -88%
Cigna Commercial NB $5.59 ↓ -87%
Employers Health Network Commercial $5.70 ↓ -87%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $5.86 ↓ -86%
Aetna Broad Network $5.91 ↓ -86%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $6.04 ↓ -86%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $6.45 ↓ -85%
MedCost Ultra $6.51 ↓ -85%
MedCost PPO $7.48 ↓ -83%
Magellan Behavioral Health $7.74 ↓ -82%
Quik Trip Commercial $8.39 ↓ -80%
GMMI Commercial $8.39 ↓ -80%
Cigna Commercial SAR $8.71 ↓ -80%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $9.29 ↓ -78%
ChoiceCare Commercial $9.29 ↓ -78%
Healthgram Commercial $10.32 ↓ -76%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $10.32 ↓ -76%
Cigna Behavioral Health $10.32 ↓ -76%
First Health Commercial $10.32 ↓ -76%
Aetna First Health Commercial $10.32 ↓ -76%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $10.58 ↓ -75%
Provider Select Commercial $11.22 ↓ -74%
Beechstreet Commercial $11.61 ↓ -73%
Multiplan Commercial $11.87 ↓ -72%
Humana Medicare Advantage $76.70 ↑ +78%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $77.83 ↑ +81%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $78.96 ↑ +84%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $79.19 ↑ +84%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $94.00 ↑ +119%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Immobilizer shldr dlx str 24-36in med at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $43.00 $2.45 – $12.90
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $43.00 $2.32 – $94.00
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $43.00 $1.29 – $94.00
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte $43.00 $2.47 – $94.00
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $43.00 $3.95 – $78.96
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $43.00 $1.93 – $78.96
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $43.00 $1.58 – $94.00
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $43.00 $1.81 – $103.62

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