Nushield 1 square cm at Atrium Health University City
8800 N Tryon St, Charlotte, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1346297892
$937.50
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.
$1,875.00
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.
$39.50 with Partners vs $363.40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $39.50 | ↓ -96% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $40.49 | ↓ -96% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $40.88 | ↓ -96% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $41.24 | ↓ -96% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $41.24 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $41.24 | ↓ -96% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $41.63 | ↓ -96% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $42.07 | ↓ -96% |
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $42.46 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $59.68 | ↓ -94% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $62.45 | ↓ -93% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $79.32 | ↓ -92% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $104.36 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $104.68 | ↓ -89% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $116.29 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $135.88 | ↓ -86% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $143.39 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $158.79 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial | $160.77 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $171.04 | ↓ -82% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $174.59 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $179.33 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $180.91 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $184.86 | ↓ -80% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $197.50 | ↓ -79% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $199.48 | ↓ -79% |
| MedCost | PPO | $229.10 | ↓ -76% |
| Magellan | Behavioral Health | $237.00 | ↓ -75% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $256.75 | ↓ -73% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $256.75 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $266.63 | ↓ -72% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Employee Plan | $284.40 | ↓ -70% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $284.40 | ↓ -70% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Commercial | $316.00 | ↓ -66% |
| First Health | Commercial | $316.00 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $316.00 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | Behavioral Health | $316.00 | ↓ -66% |
| Healthgram | Commercial | $316.00 | ↓ -66% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $323.90 | ↓ -65% |
| Provider Select | Commercial | $343.65 | ↓ -63% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $355.50 | ↓ -62% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $363.40 | ↓ -61% |
| 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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Nushield 1 square cm at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $937.50 | $75.05 – $395.00 |
| Atrium Health Mercy | Charlotte | $937.50 | $70.98 – $363.40 |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | $937.50 | $39.50 – $363.40 |
| Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center | Charlotte | $937.50 | $75.64 – $355.50 |
| Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte | Charlotte | $937.50 | $120.83 – $363.40 |
| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $937.50 | $59.09 – $375.25 |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Concord | $937.50 | $48.47 – $375.25 |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Shelby | $937.50 | $55.30 – $375.25 |