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Cholesterol (Lipid) Test 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

$187.73

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.

$375.45

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.

$13.60 with ChoiceCare vs $345.41 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
ChoiceCare Commercial $13.60 ↓ -93%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $13.60 ↓ -93%
Humana Medicare Advantage $13.66 ↓ -93%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $13.86 ↓ -93%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $14.06 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $14.10 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $16.70 ↓ -91%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $16.70 ↓ -91%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $16.70 ↓ -91%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $16.70 ↓ -91%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $16.70 ↓ -91%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $16.82 ↓ -91%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $16.93 ↓ -91%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus $22.51 ↓ -88%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $22.85 ↓ -88%
MedCost Ultra $30.06 ↓ -84%
MedCost PPO $30.06 ↓ -84%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $114.85 ↓ -39%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $150.93 ↓ -20%
Cigna Commercial NB $162.57 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $165.95 ↓ -12%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $185.10 ↓ -1%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $185.10 ↓ -1%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $187.73 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $201.24 ↑ +7%
Aetna Broad Network $201.24 ↑ +7%
Quik Trip Commercial $244.04 ↑ +30%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $246.30 ↑ +31%
Cigna Commercial SAR $253.43 ↑ +35%
Aetna First Health Commercial $274.08 ↑ +46%
Healthgram Commercial $300.36 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $307.87 ↑ +64%
First Health Commercial $319.13 ↑ +70%
Beechstreet Commercial $345.41 ↑ +84%
Multiplan Commercial $345.41 ↑ +84%
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Cholesterol (Lipid) Test at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $187.73 $16.70 – $330.40
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $187.73 $13.60 – $345.41
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $187.73 $13.60 – $345.41
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte $187.73 $13.60 – $337.91
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $187.73 $13.60 – $345.41
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $187.73 $13.60 – $356.68
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $187.73 $13.60 – $356.68
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $187.73 $13.60 – $356.68

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