Pamidronate 30 mg/10 ml (3 mg/ml) intravenous solution at Atrium Health University City
8800 N Tryon St, Charlotte, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1346297892
$98.05
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.
$196.10
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.
$7.47 with Partners vs $68.68 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 | $7.47 | ↓ -92% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $7.65 | ↓ -92% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $7.73 | ↓ -92% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $7.79 | ↓ -92% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $7.79 | ↓ -92% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $7.79 | ↓ -92% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $7.87 | ↓ -92% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $7.95 | ↓ -92% |
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $8.02 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $11.28 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $19.78 | ↓ -80% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $21.98 | ↓ -78% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $22.45 | ↓ -77% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $22.45 | ↓ -77% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $22.45 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $25.68 | ↓ -74% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $27.10 | ↓ -72% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $29.86 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $30.01 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial | $30.38 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $32.32 | ↓ -67% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $33.00 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $34.19 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $34.94 | ↓ -64% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $37.33 | ↓ -62% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $37.70 | ↓ -62% |
| MedCost | PPO | $43.30 | ↓ -56% |
| Magellan | Behavioral Health | $44.79 | ↓ -54% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $48.52 | ↓ -51% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $48.52 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $50.39 | ↓ -49% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Employee Plan | $53.75 | ↓ -45% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $53.75 | ↓ -45% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Commercial | $59.72 | ↓ -39% |
| First Health | Commercial | $59.72 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $59.72 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna | Behavioral Health | $59.72 | ↓ -39% |
| Healthgram | Commercial | $59.72 | ↓ -39% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $61.21 | ↓ -38% |
| Provider Select | Commercial | $64.95 | ↓ -34% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $67.19 | ↓ -31% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $68.68 | ↓ -30% |
| 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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Pamidronate 30 mg/10 ml (3 mg/ml) intravenous solution at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $98.05 | $14.18 – $74.65 |
| Atrium Health Mercy | Charlotte | $98.05 | $9.85 – $68.68 |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | $98.05 | $7.47 – $68.68 |
| Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center | Charlotte | $98.05 | $9.85 – $67.19 |
| Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte | Charlotte | $98.05 | $21.06 – $68.68 |
| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $98.05 | $11.17 – $70.92 |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Concord | $98.05 | $9.16 – $70.92 |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Shelby | $98.05 | $10.45 – $70.92 |