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Prepare embryo for transfer 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

$504.25

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.

$1,008.50

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.

$51.83 with Humana vs $927.82 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
Humana Medicare Advantage $51.83 ↓ -90%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $52.60 ↓ -90%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $53.36 ↓ -89%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $53.52 ↓ -89%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $63.52 ↓ -87%
Partners Managed Medicaid $100.85 ↓ -80%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $103.37 ↓ -80%
Alliance Behavioral Health $104.38 ↓ -79%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $105.29 ↓ -79%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $105.29 ↓ -79%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $105.29 ↓ -79%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $106.30 ↓ -79%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $107.41 ↓ -79%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $108.41 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $152.38 ↓ -70%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $231.85 ↓ -54%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $232.46 ↓ -54%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $267.25 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $296.90 ↓ -41%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $305.88 ↓ -39%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $346.92 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $366.09 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $405.42 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $410.46 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $436.68 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $445.76 ↓ -12%
Aetna Broad Network $461.89 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $471.98 ↓ -6%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $504.25 ↑ +0%
MedCost Ultra $509.29 ↑ +1%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $522.40 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $584.93 ↑ +16%
Magellan Behavioral Health $605.10 ↑ +20%
Quik Trip Commercial $655.53 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $655.53 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $680.74 ↑ +35%
ChoiceCare Commercial $726.12 ↑ +44%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $726.12 ↑ +44%
Aetna First Health Commercial $806.80 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $806.80 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $806.80 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $806.80 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $806.80 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $826.97 ↑ +64%
Provider Select Commercial $877.40 ↑ +74%
Beechstreet Commercial $907.65 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $927.82 ↑ +84%
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital

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Prepare embryo for transfer at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $504.25 $191.62 – $1,008.50
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $504.25 $51.83 – $927.82
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $504.25 $51.83 – $927.82
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte $504.25 $51.83 – $907.65
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $504.25 $54.50 – $927.82
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $504.25 $51.83 – $958.08
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $504.25 $51.83 – $958.08
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $504.25 $51.18 – $958.08

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