Ultrasound breast complete 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

$519.75

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.

$1,039.50

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.

$30.68 with Partners vs $956.34 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 $30.68 ↓ -94%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $30.68 ↓ -94%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $30.99 ↓ -94%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $30.99 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $30.99 ↓ -94%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $30.99 ↓ -94%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $30.99 ↓ -94%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $30.99 ↓ -94%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $31.29 ↓ -94%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $32.56 ↓ -94%
Humana Medicare Advantage $33.21 ↓ -94%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $33.70 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $33.79 ↓ -93%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $40.70 ↓ -92%
Alliance Behavioral Health $107.59 ↓ -79%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $238.98 ↓ -54%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $239.60 ↓ -54%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $275.47 ↓ -47%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $306.03 ↓ -41%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $315.28 ↓ -39%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $357.59 ↓ -31%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $377.34 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $417.88 ↓ -20%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $423.08 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial NB $450.10 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $459.46 ↓ -12%
Aetna Broad Network $476.09 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $486.49 ↓ -6%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $519.75 ↑ +0%
MedCost Ultra $524.95 ↑ +1%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $538.46 ↑ +4%
MedCost PPO $602.91 ↑ +16%
Magellan Behavioral Health $623.70 ↑ +20%
Quik Trip Commercial $675.68 ↑ +30%
GMMI Commercial $675.68 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $701.66 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $748.44 ↑ +44%
ChoiceCare Commercial $748.44 ↑ +44%
Healthgram Commercial $831.60 ↑ +60%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $831.60 ↑ +60%
First Health Commercial $831.60 ↑ +60%
Aetna First Health Commercial $831.60 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $831.60 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $852.39 ↑ +64%
Provider Select Commercial $904.37 ↑ +74%
Beechstreet Commercial $935.55 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $956.34 ↑ +84%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Ultrasound breast complete at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $519.75 $30.99 – $914.76
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $519.75 $30.68 – $956.34
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $519.75 $30.68 – $956.34
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte $519.75 $30.68 – $935.55
Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte Charlotte $519.75 $30.99 – $956.34
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $519.75 $30.68 – $987.53
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $519.75 $30.68 – $987.53
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $519.75 $30.68 – $987.53

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