Replace g/c tube perc 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

$566.55

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.

$1,133.10

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.

$55.81 with Partners vs $1,042.45 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 $55.81 ↓ -90%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $55.81 ↓ -90%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $56.37 ↓ -90%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $56.37 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $56.37 ↓ -90%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $56.37 ↓ -90%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $56.37 ↓ -90%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $56.37 ↓ -90%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $56.93 ↓ -90%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $60.01 ↓ -89%
Humana Medicare Advantage $61.21 ↓ -89%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $62.11 ↓ -89%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $62.28 ↓ -89%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $75.01 ↓ -87%
Alliance Behavioral Health $117.28 ↓ -79%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $179.14 ↓ -68%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $227.53 ↓ -60%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $299.37 ↓ -47%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $300.27 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $333.58 ↓ -41%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $365.99 ↓ -35%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $389.79 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $411.32 ↓ -27%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $461.17 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $490.63 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $500.83 ↓ -12%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $512.16 ↓ -10%
Aetna Broad Network $518.96 ↓ -8%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $566.55 ↑ +0%
MedCost Ultra $572.22 ↑ +1%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $586.95 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $657.20 ↑ +16%
Magellan Behavioral Health $679.86 ↑ +20%
Quik Trip Commercial $736.52 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $736.52 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $764.84 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $815.83 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $815.83 ↑ +44%
Healthgram Commercial $906.48 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $906.48 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $906.48 ↑ +60%
Aetna First Health Commercial $906.48 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $906.48 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $929.14 ↑ +64%
Provider Select Commercial $985.80 ↑ +74%
Beechstreet Commercial $1,019.79 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $1,042.45 ↑ +84%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $566.55 $56.37 – $997.13
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