Immunofixation electrophoresis serum 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

$127.30

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.

$254.60

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.

$15.17 with Healthy Blue vs $234.23 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
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $15.17 ↓ -88%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $15.17 ↓ -88%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $15.17 ↓ -88%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $15.17 ↓ -88%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $15.17 ↓ -88%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $16.68 ↓ -87%
Humana Medicare Advantage $17.01 ↓ -87%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $17.26 ↓ -86%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $17.31 ↓ -86%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $77.88 ↓ -39%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $88.27 ↓ -31%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $94.13 ↓ -26%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $94.71 ↓ -26%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $102.35 ↓ -20%
Cigna Commercial NB $110.24 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $112.53 ↓ -12%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $116.15 ↓ -9%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus $120.68 ↓ -5%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $125.52 ↓ -1%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $125.52 ↓ -1%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $127.30 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $136.47 ↑ +7%
Aetna Broad Network $136.47 ↑ +7%
MedCost Ultra $148.94 ↑ +17%
Quik Trip Commercial $165.49 ↑ +30%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $167.02 ↑ +31%
MedCost PPO $170.58 ↑ +34%
Cigna Commercial SAR $171.86 ↑ +35%
Aetna First Health Commercial $185.86 ↑ +46%
ChoiceCare Commercial $198.59 ↑ +56%
Healthgram Commercial $203.68 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $208.77 ↑ +64%
First Health Commercial $216.41 ↑ +70%
Beechstreet Commercial $234.23 ↑ +84%
Multiplan Commercial $234.23 ↑ +84%
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital

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Immunofixation electrophoresis serum at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $127.30 $15.17 – $224.05
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $127.30 $15.02 – $234.23
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $127.30 $15.02 – $234.23
Atrium Health University City Charlotte $127.30 $15.02 – $234.23
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte $127.30 $15.02 – $229.14
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $127.30 $15.02 – $241.87
Atrium Health Cabarrus Concord $127.30 $15.02 – $241.87
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $127.30 $15.02 – $241.87

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