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Bone Density Scan (DEXA) 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

$413.48

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.

$826.95

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.

$8.28 with United Healthcare vs $760.79 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 $8.28 ↓ -98%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $8.28 ↓ -98%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $8.28 ↓ -98%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $8.28 ↓ -98%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $8.28 ↓ -98%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $8.78 ↓ -98%
Humana Medicare Advantage $8.96 ↓ -98%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $9.09 ↓ -98%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $9.11 ↓ -98%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $16.79 ↓ -96%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus $18.50 ↓ -96%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $20.36 ↓ -95%
Aetna Broad Network $20.41 ↓ -95%
ChoiceCare Commercial $21.51 ↓ -95%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $21.51 ↓ -95%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $21.68 ↓ -95%
MedCost Ultra $25.21 ↓ -94%
MedCost PPO $25.21 ↓ -94%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $26.80 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $46.35 ↓ -89%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $150.41 ↓ -64%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $252.96 ↓ -39%
Cigna Commercial NB $358.07 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $365.51 ↓ -12%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $407.69 ↓ -1%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $413.48 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $443.25 ↑ +7%
Quik Trip Commercial $537.52 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $558.19 ↑ +35%
Aetna First Health Commercial $603.67 ↑ +46%
Healthgram Commercial $661.56 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $678.10 ↑ +64%
First Health Commercial $702.91 ↑ +70%
Beechstreet Commercial $760.79 ↑ +84%
Multiplan Commercial $760.79 ↑ +84%
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Bone Density Scan (DEXA) at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $413.48 $8.28 – $727.72
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $413.48 $8.20 – $760.79
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $413.48 $8.20 – $760.79
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $413.48 $8.20 – $760.79
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte $413.48 $8.20 – $744.26
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $413.48 $8.20 – $785.60
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $413.48 $8.20 – $785.60
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $413.48 $8.20 – $785.60

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