Suscept studies macrobroth dilution ea 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

$18.43

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.

$36.85

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.

$3.81 with Alliance vs $33.90 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
Alliance Behavioral Health $3.81 ↓ -79%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $3.85 ↓ -79%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $3.85 ↓ -79%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $3.85 ↓ -79%
Humana Medicare Advantage $6.77 ↓ -63%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $6.87 ↓ -63%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $6.97 ↓ -62%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $6.99 ↓ -62%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $8.19 ↓ -56%
Partners Managed Medicaid $8.19 ↓ -56%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $8.27 ↓ -55%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $8.27 ↓ -55%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $8.27 ↓ -55%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $8.30 ↓ -55%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $8.35 ↓ -55%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $8.47 ↓ -54%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $8.49 ↓ -54%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $9.77 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $10.85 ↓ -41%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $11.18 ↓ -39%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $12.68 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $13.38 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $14.81 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $15.00 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $15.96 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $16.29 ↓ -12%
Aetna Broad Network $16.88 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $17.25 ↓ -6%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $18.43 ↑ +0%
MedCost Ultra $18.61 ↑ +1%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $19.09 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $21.37 ↑ +16%
Magellan Behavioral Health $22.11 ↑ +20%
Quik Trip Commercial $23.95 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $23.95 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $24.87 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $26.53 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $26.53 ↑ +44%
Healthgram Commercial $29.48 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $29.48 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $29.48 ↑ +60%
Aetna First Health Commercial $29.48 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $29.48 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $30.22 ↑ +64%
Provider Select Commercial $32.06 ↑ +74%
Beechstreet Commercial $33.17 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $33.90 ↑ +84%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Suscept studies macrobroth dilution ea at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $18.43 $7.00 – $32.43
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $18.43 $6.77 – $33.90
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $18.43 $3.78 – $33.90
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte $18.43 $6.77 – $33.17
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $18.43 $6.77 – $33.90
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $18.43 $5.57 – $35.01
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $18.43 $4.57 – $35.01
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $18.43 $6.17 – $35.01

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