Assay of urine sulfate at Aurora Medical Center Fond du Lac
210 Wisconsin American Dr., Fond Du Lac, WI · Aurorahealthcare · · NPI 1275578064
$30.00
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.
$60.00
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.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$4.39 with United Healthcare vs $51.00 with Anthem — 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 |
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| United Healthcare | HMO | $4.39 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $4.39 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | Exchange | $4.39 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | Charter | $4.39 | ↓ -85% |
| Anthem | Blue Priority | $5.49 | ↓ -82% |
| Aurora Caregiver | Commercial | $5.49 | ↓ -82% |
| Anthem | Blue Preferred | $6.59 | ↓ -78% |
| Common Ground | Exchange | $11.53 | ↓ -62% |
| Common Ground | Employee Trust Fund | $11.53 | ↓ -62% |
| Centivo | Commercial | $12.00 | ↓ -60% |
| Common Ground | Envision | $12.00 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | HMO | $12.24 | ↓ -59% |
| Quartz One | Commercial | $13.73 | ↓ -54% |
| Health Payment Systems | Commercial | $13.73 | ↓ -54% |
| Everpointe Elite | Commercial | $14.00 | ↓ -53% |
| HealthPartners | Employee Trust Fund | $14.56 | ↓ -51% |
| Molina Exchange | Commercial | $15.15 | ↓ -50% |
| HS Technology | Commercial | $15.45 | ↓ -49% |
| Quartz Group | Commercial | $15.92 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | PPO-GPPO | $16.26 | ↓ -46% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Aurora Featured | $17.79 | ↓ -41% |
| HealthPartners | Robin | $18.64 | ↓ -38% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Statewide | $18.72 | ↓ -38% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Arise | $18.72 | ↓ -38% |
| Trilogy | Commercial | $19.27 | ↓ -36% |
| Health EOS Plus | Commercial | $36.00 | ↑ +20% |
| HealthPartners | Broad | $45.00 | ↑ +50% |
| Health EOS | PPO | $48.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Aetna | PPO | $49.56 | ↑ +65% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $50.52 | ↑ +68% |
| Cigna | PPO | $50.76 | ↑ +69% |
| Anthem | PPO | $51.00 | ↑ +70% |
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Assay of urine sulfate at other Wisconsin hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| SSM Health St. Agnes Hospital - Fond du Lac | Fond Du Lac | not published | $4.12 – $10.60 |
| Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Milwaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) | Milwaukee | $18.02 | $5.49 – $20.64 |
| Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Ozaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) | Mequon | $18.02 | $5.49 – $20.64 |
| UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital | Madison | $34.40 | $3.29 – $7.52 |
| SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Baraboo | Baraboo | $13.75 | $4.12 – $47.22 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Janesville | Janesville | $16.50 | $4.12 – $37.77 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison | Madison | $12.10 | $4.12 – $38.64 |
| SSM Health Monroe Hospital | Monroe | $44.00 | $5.49 – $9.61 |