Pfc sigma fem post aug sz3 8mm 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

$9,000.00

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.

$18,000.00

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.

$1.50 with Partners vs $13.80 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 $1.50 ↓ -100%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $1.54 ↓ -100%
Alliance Behavioral Health $1.55 ↓ -100%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $1.57 ↓ -100%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $1.57 ↓ -100%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $1.57 ↓ -100%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $1.58 ↓ -100%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $1.60 ↓ -100%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $1.61 ↓ -100%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $2.27 ↓ -100%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $2.37 ↓ -100%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $3.01 ↓ -100%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $3.96 ↓ -100%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $3.98 ↓ -100%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $4.42 ↓ -100%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $5.16 ↓ -100%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $5.45 ↓ -100%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $6.03 ↓ -100%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $6.11 ↓ -100%
Cigna Commercial NB $6.50 ↓ -100%
Employers Health Network Commercial $6.63 ↓ -100%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $6.81 ↓ -100%
Aetna Broad Network $6.87 ↓ -100%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $7.02 ↓ -100%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $7.50 ↓ -100%
MedCost Ultra $7.58 ↓ -100%
MedCost PPO $8.70 ↓ -100%
Magellan Behavioral Health $9.00 ↓ -100%
Quik Trip Commercial $9.75 ↓ -100%
GMMI Commercial $9.75 ↓ -100%
Cigna Commercial SAR $10.13 ↓ -100%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $10.80 ↓ -100%
ChoiceCare Commercial $10.80 ↓ -100%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $12.00 ↓ -100%
First Health Commercial $12.00 ↓ -100%
Aetna First Health Commercial $12.00 ↓ -100%
Cigna Behavioral Health $12.00 ↓ -100%
Healthgram Commercial $12.00 ↓ -100%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $12.30 ↓ -100%
Provider Select Commercial $13.05 ↓ -100%
Beechstreet Commercial $13.50 ↓ -100%
Multiplan Commercial $13.80 ↓ -100%
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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Pfc sigma fem post aug sz3 8mm at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $9,000.00 $2.85 – $15.00
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $9,000.00 $2.70 – $13.80
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $9,000.00 $1.50 – $13.80
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte $9,000.00 $2.87 – $13.50
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $9,000.00 $4.59 – $13.80
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $9,000.00 $2.24 – $14.25
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $9,000.00 $1.84 – $14.25
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $9,000.00 $2.10 – $14.25

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