Creatine kinase 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

$78.15

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.

$156.30

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.

$6.64 with Humana vs $143.80 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
Humana Medicare Advantage $6.64 ↓ -92%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $6.74 ↓ -91%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $6.84 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $6.86 ↓ -91%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $8.11 ↓ -90%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $8.11 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $8.11 ↓ -90%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $8.11 ↓ -90%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $8.11 ↓ -90%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $8.20 ↓ -90%
ChoiceCare Commercial $8.20 ↓ -90%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $10.75 ↓ -86%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $11.11 ↓ -86%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $47.81 ↓ -39%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $54.19 ↓ -31%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $62.83 ↓ -20%
Cigna Commercial NB $67.68 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $69.08 ↓ -12%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus $74.09 ↓ -5%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $77.06 ↓ -1%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $77.06 ↓ -1%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $78.15 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $83.78 ↑ +7%
Aetna Broad Network $83.78 ↑ +7%
MedCost Ultra $91.44 ↑ +17%
Quik Trip Commercial $101.60 ↑ +30%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $102.53 ↑ +31%
MedCost PPO $104.72 ↑ +34%
Cigna Commercial SAR $105.50 ↑ +35%
Aetna First Health Commercial $114.10 ↑ +46%
Healthgram Commercial $125.04 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $128.17 ↑ +64%
First Health Commercial $132.86 ↑ +70%
Beechstreet Commercial $143.80 ↑ +84%
Multiplan Commercial $143.80 ↑ +84%
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Creatine kinase at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $78.15 $8.11 – $137.54
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $78.15 $6.64 – $143.80
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $78.15 $6.64 – $143.80
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $78.15 $6.64 – $143.80
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte $78.15 $6.64 – $140.67
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $78.15 $6.64 – $148.49
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $78.15 $6.64 – $148.49
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $78.15 $6.64 – $148.49

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