Inj, clindamycin (baxter) at Atrium Health University City
8800 N Tryon St, Charlotte, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1346297892
$27.80
Cash price 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.
$55.60
Gross charge 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.
$4.96 with Partners vs $45.63 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.
Full explanation →
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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.
Full explanation →Payer ?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. Full explanation → |
Plan ?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. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $4.96 | ↓ -82% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $5.08 | ↓ -82% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $5.13 | ↓ -82% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $5.18 | ↓ -81% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $5.18 | ↓ -81% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $5.18 | ↓ -81% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $5.23 | ↓ -81% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $5.28 | ↓ -81% |
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $5.33 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $7.49 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $13.14 | ↓ -53% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $14.60 | ↓ -47% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $14.92 | ↓ -46% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $14.92 | ↓ -46% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $14.92 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $17.06 | ↓ -39% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $18.00 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $19.84 | ↓ -29% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $19.94 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial | $20.19 | ↓ -27% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $21.48 | ↓ -23% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $21.92 | ↓ -21% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $22.72 | ↓ -18% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $23.21 | ↓ -17% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $24.80 | ↓ -11% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $25.05 | ↓ -10% |
| MedCost | PPO | $28.77 | ↑ +3% |
| Magellan | Behavioral Health | $29.76 | ↑ +7% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $32.24 | ↑ +16% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $32.24 | ↑ +16% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $33.48 | ↑ +20% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Employee Plan | $35.71 | ↑ +28% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $35.71 | ↑ +28% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Commercial | $39.68 | ↑ +43% |
| First Health | Commercial | $39.68 | ↑ +43% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $39.68 | ↑ +43% |
| Cigna | Behavioral Health | $39.68 | ↑ +43% |
| Healthgram | Commercial | $39.68 | ↑ +43% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $40.67 | ↑ +46% |
| Provider Select | Commercial | $43.15 | ↑ +55% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $44.64 | ↑ +61% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $45.63 | ↑ +64% |
| 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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Inj, clindamycin (baxter) at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $27.80 | $9.42 – $49.60 |
| Atrium Health Mercy | Charlotte | $27.80 | $1.87 – $45.63 |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | $27.80 | $4.96 – $45.63 |
| Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center | Charlotte | $27.80 | $1.87 – $44.64 |
| Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte | Charlotte | $27.80 | $13.99 – $45.63 |
| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $27.80 | $7.42 – $47.12 |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Concord | $27.80 | $6.09 – $47.12 |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Shelby | $27.80 | $6.94 – $47.12 |