Screening prostate cancer PSA at Aurora Medical Center Grafton

975 Port Washington Rd, Grafton, WI · Aurorahealthcare · · NPI 1265740195

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Nov 21, 2025 · Ingested Sep 16, 2026

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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.

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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.

$15.45 with United Healthcare vs $67.78 with Trilogy — 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
United Healthcare Charter $15.45
United Healthcare Exchange $15.45
United Healthcare HMO $15.45
United Healthcare Nexus $15.45
Anthem Blue Priority $19.31
Aurora Caregiver Commercial $19.31
Anthem Blue Preferred $23.17
Common Ground Employee Trust Fund $40.55
Common Ground Exchange $40.55
Centivo Commercial $42.21
Common Ground Envision $42.21
Aetna HMO $43.06
Health Payment Systems Commercial $48.28
Quartz One Commercial $48.28
HealthPartners Employee Trust Fund $51.21
Molina Exchange Commercial $53.30
Everpointe Elite Commercial $54.26
HS Technology Commercial $54.34
Quartz Group Commercial $56.00
Cigna PPO-GPPO $56.40
Wisconsin Physician Service Aurora Featured $62.56
HealthPartners Robin $65.56
Wisconsin Physician Service Arise $65.85
Wisconsin Physician Service Statewide $65.85
Trilogy Commercial $67.78

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Screening prostate cancer PSA at other Wisconsin hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Milwaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) Milwaukee $30.74 $20.28 – $43.56
Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Ozaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) Mequon $54.59 $20.28 – $71.07
UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital Madison $216.54 $11.59 – $84.45
SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Baraboo Baraboo $200.20 $14.48 – $182.85
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Janesville Janesville $241.45 $14.48 – $146.29
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison Madison $167.20 $14.48 – $149.60
SSM Health Monroe Hospital Monroe $115.50 $19.31 – $33.79
SSM Health Ripon Community Hospital Ripon $136.95 $19.31 – $37.22

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