Methylene blue (antidote) 5 mg/ml intravenous solution at Atrium Health Cleveland
201 E Grover St, Shelby, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1669348991
$2,177.70
Cash price 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.
$4,355.40
Gross charge 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.
$8.90 with Humana vs $439.14 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.
Full explanation →
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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.
Full explanation →Payer ?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. Full explanation → |
Plan ?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. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $8.90 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $9.03 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna Healthspring | Medicare Advantage | $9.16 | ↓ -100% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $9.19 | ↓ -100% |
| Partners | Managed Medicaid | $64.72 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Managed Medicaid | $65.22 | ↓ -97% |
| Carolina Complete Health | Managed Medicaid | $66.47 | ↓ -97% |
| Healthy Blue | Managed Medicaid | $66.47 | ↓ -97% |
| Wellcare | Managed Medicaid | $66.47 | ↓ -97% |
| Vaya | Managed Medicaid | $67.12 | ↓ -97% |
| Trillium | Managed Medicaid | $68.46 | ↓ -97% |
| Alliance | Managed Medicaid | $68.60 | ↓ -97% |
| Alliance | Behavioral Health | $77.38 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | $96.75 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Connected North Carolina Individual HMO | $122.50 | ↓ -94% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Group Commercial | $141.77 | ↓ -93% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | Local Individual Commercial | $141.77 | ↓ -93% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $141.77 | ↓ -93% |
| Ambetter | CoBranded Commercial | $147.64 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $148.38 | ↓ -93% |
| Ambetter | Individual Commercial | $167.80 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Whole Health HMO | $170.11 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | IEX Commercial | $185.82 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Commercial NB | $200.15 | ↓ -91% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $204.31 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial | $214.95 | ↓ -90% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan P | $231.13 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Broad Network | $242.22 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare | HMO-PPO Managed Care | $246.84 | ↓ -89% |
| MedCost | Ultra | $257.94 | ↓ -88% |
| Magellan | Behavioral Health | $277.35 | ↓ -87% |
| Quik Trip | Commercial | $300.46 | ↓ -86% |
| GMMI | Commercial | $300.46 | ↓ -86% |
| MedCost | PPO | $306.47 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | Commercial SAR | $312.02 | ↓ -86% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Employee Plan | $332.82 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna First Health | Commercial | $355.93 | ↓ -84% |
| Carolina Behavioral Health | Commercial | $369.80 | ↓ -83% |
| Healthgram | Commercial | $369.80 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | Behavioral Health | $369.80 | ↓ -83% |
| ChoiceCare | Commercial | $379.05 | ↓ -83% |
| Lifesynch Community Choice Care | Behavioral Health | $392.91 | ↓ -82% |
| First Health | Commercial | $392.91 | ↓ -82% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Commercial | $416.03 | ↓ -81% |
| Beechstreet | Commercial | $425.27 | ↓ -80% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $439.14 | ↓ -80% |
| Physician Reach Out | Plan H | not published by hospital | — |
| Broughton Cardinal Partners | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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Methylene blue (antidote) 5 mg/ml intravenous solution at other North-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atrium Health Anson | Wadesboro | $2,177.70 | $8.90 – $439.14 |
| Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte | Charlotte | $2,177.70 | $87.83 – $462.25 |
| Atrium Health Cabarrus | Concord | $2,177.70 | $8.90 – $439.14 |
| Atrium Health Lincoln | Lincolnton | $2,177.70 | $8.90 – $439.14 |
| Atrium Health Mercy | Charlotte | $2,177.70 | $8.90 – $425.27 |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | $2,177.70 | $8.90 – $425.27 |
| Atrium Health Stanly | Albermarle | $2,177.70 | $8.90 – $443.76 |
| Atrium Health Union | Monroe | $2,177.70 | $8.90 – $439.14 |