Diathermy eg microwave at Aurora Medical Center Burlington
252 McHenry St, Burlington, WI · Aurorahealthcare · · NPI 1861557753
$47.50
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$95.00
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$57.00 with Health EOS Plus vs $378.00 with Wisconsin Physician Service — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health EOS Plus | Commercial | $57.00 | ↑ +20% |
| HealthPartners | Broad | $71.25 | ↑ +50% |
| Health EOS | PPO | $76.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Aetna | PPO | $78.47 | ↑ +65% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $79.99 | ↑ +68% |
| Cigna | PPO | $80.37 | ↑ +69% |
| Anthem | PPO | $80.75 | ↑ +70% |
| Aetna | HMO | $222.00 | ↑ +367% |
| Everpointe Elite | Commercial | $259.00 | ↑ +445% |
| Aurora Caregiver | Commercial | $260.00 | ↑ +447% |
| Molina Exchange | Commercial | $266.00 | ↑ +460% |
| Quartz One | Commercial | $270.00 | ↑ +468% |
| Centivo | Commercial | $274.00 | ↑ +477% |
| Anthem | Blue Priority | $275.00 | ↑ +479% |
| United Healthcare | Exchange | $275.00 | ↑ +479% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $277.00 | ↑ +483% |
| United Healthcare | Charter | $277.00 | ↑ +483% |
| Common Ground | Employee Trust Fund | $281.00 | ↑ +492% |
| Common Ground | Exchange | $281.00 | ↑ +492% |
| Common Ground | Envision | $281.00 | ↑ +492% |
| HealthPartners | Employee Trust Fund | $282.00 | ↑ +494% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $302.00 | ↑ +536% |
| HS Technology | Commercial | $304.00 | ↑ +540% |
| Quartz Group | Commercial | $320.00 | ↑ +574% |
| Cigna | PPO-GPPO | $320.00 | ↑ +574% |
| Health Payment Systems | Commercial | $325.00 | ↑ +584% |
| Trilogy | Commercial | $328.00 | ↑ +591% |
| HealthPartners | Robin | $350.00 | ↑ +637% |
| Anthem | Blue Preferred | $357.00 | ↑ +652% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Aurora Featured | $359.00 | ↑ +656% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Arise | $378.00 | ↑ +696% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Statewide | $378.00 | ↑ +696% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Diathermy eg microwave at other Wisconsin hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Ozaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) | Mequon | $18.02 | $6.69 – $20.20 |
| Aurora Baycare Medical Center | Green Bay | $47.50 | not published |
| Aurora Medical Center Sheboygan County | Sheboygan | $47.50 | not published |
| Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Milwaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) | Milwaukee | not published | $6.69 – $20.20 |
| UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital | Madison | not published | $6.69 – $28.70 |
| SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Baraboo | Baraboo | not published | $5.18 – $6.91 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison | Madison | not published | $5.18 – $6.91 |
| SSM Health Monroe Hospital | Monroe | not published | $6.91 – $6.91 |