Sodium hyaluronate 20 mg/2 ml syringe 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

$548.25

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.

$1,096.50

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.

$32.50 with Partners vs $299.00 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 $32.50 ↓ -94%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $33.31 ↓ -94%
Alliance Behavioral Health $33.64 ↓ -94%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $33.93 ↓ -94%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $33.93 ↓ -94%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $33.93 ↓ -94%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $34.26 ↓ -94%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $34.61 ↓ -94%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $34.94 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $49.11 ↓ -91%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $83.12 ↓ -85%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $86.13 ↓ -84%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $95.68 ↓ -83%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $97.76 ↓ -82%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $97.76 ↓ -82%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $111.80 ↓ -80%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $117.98 ↓ -78%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $130.00 ↓ -76%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $130.65 ↓ -76%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $132.28 ↓ -76%
Cigna Commercial NB $140.73 ↓ -74%
Employers Health Network Commercial $143.65 ↓ -74%
Aetna Broad Network $148.85 ↓ -73%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $152.10 ↓ -72%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $162.50 ↓ -70%
MedCost Ultra $164.13 ↓ -70%
MedCost PPO $188.50 ↓ -66%
Magellan Behavioral Health $195.00 ↓ -64%
Quik Trip Commercial $211.25 ↓ -61%
GMMI Commercial $211.25 ↓ -61%
Cigna Commercial SAR $219.38 ↓ -60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $234.00 ↓ -57%
ChoiceCare Commercial $234.00 ↓ -57%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $260.00 ↓ -53%
First Health Commercial $260.00 ↓ -53%
Aetna First Health Commercial $260.00 ↓ -53%
Cigna Behavioral Health $260.00 ↓ -53%
Healthgram Commercial $260.00 ↓ -53%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $266.50 ↓ -51%
Provider Select Commercial $282.75 ↓ -48%
Beechstreet Commercial $292.50 ↓ -47%
Multiplan Commercial $299.00 ↓ -45%
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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Sodium hyaluronate 20 mg/2 ml syringe at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $548.25 $61.75 – $325.00
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $548.25 $70.88 – $299.00
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $548.25 $32.50 – $299.00
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte $548.25 $70.88 – $292.50
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Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $548.25 $48.62 – $308.75
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $548.25 $39.88 – $308.75
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $548.25 $45.50 – $308.75

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