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Ankle X-ray at Carolinas Rehabilitation Charlotte

1100 Blythe Blvd, Charlotte, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1790727550

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Dec 5, 2025 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$274.50

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.

$549.00

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.

$7.08 with United Healthcare vs $505.08 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
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $7.08 ↓ -97%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $7.08 ↓ -97%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $7.08 ↓ -97%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $7.08 ↓ -97%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $7.08 ↓ -97%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $7.81 ↓ -97%
Humana Medicare Advantage $7.97 ↓ -97%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $8.08 ↓ -97%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $8.11 ↓ -97%
Aetna Broad Network $18.17 ↓ -93%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $21.79 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $22.59 ↓ -92%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $40.49 ↓ -85%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $41.70 ↓ -85%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $42.16 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $43.38 ↓ -84%
ChoiceCare Commercial $44.55 ↓ -84%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $44.55 ↓ -84%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus $53.37 ↓ -81%
MedCost Ultra $59.29 ↓ -78%
MedCost PPO $59.29 ↓ -78%
Aetna First Health Commercial $69.48 ↓ -75%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $167.94 ↓ -39%
Cigna Commercial NB $237.72 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $242.66 ↓ -12%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $270.66 ↓ -1%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $274.50 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $294.26 ↑ +7%
Quik Trip Commercial $356.85 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $370.58 ↑ +35%
Healthgram Commercial $439.20 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $450.18 ↑ +64%
First Health Commercial $466.65 ↑ +70%
Beechstreet Commercial $505.08 ↑ +84%
Multiplan Commercial $505.08 ↑ +84%
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Ankle X-ray at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $274.50 $7.08 – $483.12
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $274.50 $7.01 – $505.08
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $274.50 $7.01 – $505.08
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $274.50 $7.01 – $505.08
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte $274.50 $7.01 – $494.10
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $274.50 $7.01 – $521.55
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $274.50 $7.01 – $521.55
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $274.50 $7.01 – $521.55

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