Treat knee fracture 27530 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

$550.73

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.

$1,101.45

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.

$110.15 with Partners vs $1,013.33 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 $110.15 ↓ -80%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $112.90 ↓ -79%
Alliance Behavioral Health $114.00 ↓ -79%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $114.99 ↓ -79%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $114.99 ↓ -79%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $114.99 ↓ -79%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $116.09 ↓ -79%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $117.30 ↓ -79%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $118.41 ↓ -78%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $166.43 ↓ -70%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $174.14 ↓ -68%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $221.17 ↓ -60%
Humana Medicare Advantage $232.71 ↓ -58%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $236.14 ↓ -57%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $239.56 ↓ -57%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $240.26 ↓ -56%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $285.19 ↓ -48%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $291.00 ↓ -47%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $291.88 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $324.27 ↓ -41%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $355.77 ↓ -35%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $378.90 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $399.83 ↓ -27%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $448.29 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $476.93 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $486.84 ↓ -12%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $497.86 ↓ -10%
Aetna Broad Network $504.46 ↓ -8%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $550.73 ↑ +0%
MedCost Ultra $556.23 ↑ +1%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $570.55 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $638.84 ↑ +16%
Magellan Behavioral Health $660.87 ↑ +20%
Quik Trip Commercial $715.94 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $715.94 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $743.48 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $793.04 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $793.04 ↑ +44%
Healthgram Commercial $881.16 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $881.16 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $881.16 ↑ +60%
Aetna First Health Commercial $881.16 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $881.16 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $903.19 ↑ +64%
Provider Select Commercial $958.26 ↑ +74%
Beechstreet Commercial $991.31 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $1,013.33 ↑ +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 $550.73 $205.97 – $969.28
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $550.73 $75.38 – $1,013.33
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