Morphine 4 mg/ml injection (wrapper)|discarded drug not administered at Atrium Health University City
8800 N Tryon St, Charlotte, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1346297892
$13.65
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.
$27.30
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.
$2.65 with Partners vs $24.38 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 | $2.65 | ↓ -81% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $2.72 | ↓ -80% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $2.74 | ↓ -80% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $2.77 | ↓ -80% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $2.77 | ↓ -80% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $2.77 | ↓ -80% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $2.79 | ↓ -80% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $2.82 | ↓ -79% |
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $2.85 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $4.00 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $7.02 | ↓ -49% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $7.80 | ↓ -43% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $7.97 | ↓ -42% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $7.97 | ↓ -42% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $7.97 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $9.12 | ↓ -33% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $9.62 | ↓ -30% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $10.60 | ↓ -22% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $10.65 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial | $10.79 | ↓ -21% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $11.47 | ↓ -16% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $11.71 | ↓ -14% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $12.14 | ↓ -11% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $12.40 | ↓ -9% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $13.25 | ↓ -3% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $13.38 | ↓ -2% |
| MedCost | PPO | $15.37 | ↑ +13% |
| Magellan | Behavioral Health | $15.90 | ↑ +16% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $17.23 | ↑ +26% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $17.23 | ↑ +26% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $17.89 | ↑ +31% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Employee Plan | $19.08 | ↑ +40% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $19.08 | ↑ +40% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Commercial | $21.20 | ↑ +55% |
| First Health | Commercial | $21.20 | ↑ +55% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $21.20 | ↑ +55% |
| Cigna | Behavioral Health | $21.20 | ↑ +55% |
| Healthgram | Commercial | $21.20 | ↑ +55% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $21.73 | ↑ +59% |
| Provider Select | Commercial | $23.06 | ↑ +69% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $23.85 | ↑ +75% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $24.38 | ↑ +79% |
| 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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Morphine 4 mg/ml injection (wrapper)|discarded drug not administered at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $13.65 | $5.04 – $26.50 |
| Atrium Health Mercy | Charlotte | $13.65 | $5.78 – $24.38 |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | $13.65 | $2.65 – $24.38 |
| Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center | Charlotte | $13.65 | $5.78 – $23.85 |
| Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte | Charlotte | $13.65 | $7.48 – $24.38 |
| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $13.65 | $3.96 – $25.18 |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Concord | $13.65 | $3.25 – $25.18 |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Shelby | $13.65 | $3.71 – $25.18 |