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

$741.18

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.

$1,482.35

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.

$148.24 with Partners vs $1,363.76 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 $148.24 ↓ -80%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $151.94 ↓ -80%
Alliance Behavioral Health $153.42 ↓ -79%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $154.76 ↓ -79%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $154.76 ↓ -79%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $154.76 ↓ -79%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $156.24 ↓ -79%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $157.87 ↓ -79%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $159.35 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $223.98 ↓ -70%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $234.36 ↓ -68%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $297.66 ↓ -60%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $391.64 ↓ -47%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $392.82 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $436.40 ↓ -41%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $509.93 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $538.09 ↓ -27%
Humana Medicare Advantage $593.84 ↓ -20%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $595.90 ↓ -20%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $602.57 ↓ -19%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $603.32 ↓ -19%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $611.31 ↓ -18%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $613.11 ↓ -17%
Cigna Commercial NB $641.86 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $655.20 ↓ -12%
Aetna Broad Network $678.92 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $693.74 ↓ -6%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $727.75 ↓ -2%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $741.18 ↑ +0%
MedCost Ultra $748.59 ↑ +1%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $767.86 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $859.76 ↑ +16%
Magellan Behavioral Health $889.41 ↑ +20%
Quik Trip Commercial $963.53 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $963.53 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $1,000.59 ↑ +35%
ChoiceCare Commercial $1,067.29 ↑ +44%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $1,067.29 ↑ +44%
First Health Commercial $1,185.88 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $1,185.88 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $1,185.88 ↑ +60%
Aetna First Health Commercial $1,185.88 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $1,185.88 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $1,215.53 ↑ +64%
Provider Select Commercial $1,289.64 ↑ +74%
Beechstreet Commercial $1,334.12 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $1,363.76 ↑ +84%
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital —
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial 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 $741.18 $281.65 – $1,482.35
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $741.18 $266.38 – $1,363.76
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $741.18 $148.24 – $1,363.76
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte $741.18 $283.87 – $1,334.12
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $741.18 $453.45 – $1,363.76
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $741.18 $221.76 – $1,408.23
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $741.18 $181.88 – $1,408.23
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $741.18 $207.53 – $1,408.23

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