Low cost skin substitute app 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

$549.08

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.

$1,098.15

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.

$109.82 with Partners vs $1,010.30 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 $109.82 ↓ -80%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $112.56 ↓ -80%
Alliance Behavioral Health $113.66 ↓ -79%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $114.65 ↓ -79%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $114.65 ↓ -79%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $114.65 ↓ -79%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $115.75 ↓ -79%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $116.95 ↓ -79%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $118.05 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $165.93 ↓ -70%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $173.62 ↓ -68%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $220.51 ↓ -60%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $290.13 ↓ -47%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $291.01 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $323.30 ↓ -41%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $377.76 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $398.63 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $441.46 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $446.95 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $475.50 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $485.38 ↓ -12%
Aetna Broad Network $502.95 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $513.93 ↓ -6%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $549.08 ↑ +0%
MedCost Ultra $554.57 ↑ +1%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $568.84 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $636.93 ↑ +16%
Magellan Behavioral Health $658.89 ↑ +20%
Quik Trip Commercial $713.80 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $713.80 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $741.25 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $790.67 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $790.67 ↑ +44%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $878.52 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $878.52 ↑ +60%
Aetna First Health Commercial $878.52 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $878.52 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $878.52 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $900.48 ↑ +64%
Provider Select Commercial $955.39 ↑ +74%
Beechstreet Commercial $988.34 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $1,010.30 ↑ +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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Low cost skin substitute app at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $549.08 $208.65 – $1,098.15
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $549.08 $197.34 – $1,010.30
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $549.08 $109.82 – $1,010.30
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte $549.08 $210.30 – $988.34
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $549.08 $335.92 – $1,010.30
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $549.08 $164.28 – $1,043.24
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $549.08 $134.74 – $1,043.24
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $549.08 $153.74 – $1,043.24

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