Metered dose inhaler drug 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

$1,836.90

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.

$3,673.80

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.

$5.02 with Partners vs $46.18 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 $5.02 ↓ -100%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $5.15 ↓ -100%
Alliance Behavioral Health $5.20 ↓ -100%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $5.24 ↓ -100%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $5.24 ↓ -100%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $5.24 ↓ -100%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $5.29 ↓ -100%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $5.35 ↓ -100%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $5.40 ↓ -100%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $7.59 ↓ -100%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $13.30 ↓ -99%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $14.78 ↓ -99%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $15.10 ↓ -99%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $15.10 ↓ -99%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $15.10 ↓ -99%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $17.27 ↓ -99%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $18.22 ↓ -99%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $20.08 ↓ -99%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $20.18 ↓ -99%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $20.43 ↓ -99%
Cigna Commercial NB $21.74 ↓ -99%
Employers Health Network Commercial $22.19 ↓ -99%
Aetna Broad Network $22.99 ↓ -99%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $23.49 ↓ -99%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $25.10 ↓ -99%
MedCost Ultra $25.35 ↓ -99%
MedCost PPO $29.12 ↓ -98%
Magellan Behavioral Health $30.12 ↓ -98%
Quik Trip Commercial $32.63 ↓ -98%
GMMI Commercial $32.63 ↓ -98%
Cigna Commercial SAR $33.89 ↓ -98%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $36.14 ↓ -98%
ChoiceCare Commercial $36.14 ↓ -98%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $40.16 ↓ -98%
First Health Commercial $40.16 ↓ -98%
Aetna First Health Commercial $40.16 ↓ -98%
Cigna Behavioral Health $40.16 ↓ -98%
Healthgram Commercial $40.16 ↓ -98%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $41.16 ↓ -98%
Provider Select Commercial $43.67 ↓ -98%
Beechstreet Commercial $45.18 ↓ -98%
Multiplan Commercial $46.18 ↓ -97%
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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Metered dose inhaler drug at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $1,836.90 $9.54 – $50.20
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $1,836.90 $10.95 – $46.18
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $1,836.90 $5.02 – $46.18
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte $1,836.90 $10.95 – $45.18
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $1,836.90 $14.16 – $46.18
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $1,836.90 $7.51 – $47.69
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $1,836.90 $6.16 – $47.69
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $1,836.90 $7.03 – $47.69

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