Specimen fat stain at Aurora Baycare Medical Center
2845 Greenbrier Rd, Green Bay, WI · Aurorahealthcare · · NPI 1255387726
$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.
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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.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$4.70 with United Healthcare vs $80.75 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare | HMO | $4.70 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | Exchange | $4.70 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | Charter | $4.70 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $4.70 | ↓ -90% |
| Aurora Caregiver | Commercial | $5.88 | ↓ -88% |
| Anthem | Blue Priority | $5.88 | ↓ -88% |
| Anthem | Blue Preferred | $7.06 | ↓ -85% |
| Common Ground | Employee Trust Fund | $12.35 | ↓ -74% |
| Common Ground | Exchange | $12.35 | ↓ -74% |
| Everpointe Elite | Commercial | $12.75 | ↓ -73% |
| Common Ground | Envision | $12.85 | ↓ -73% |
| Centivo | Commercial | $12.85 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | HMO | $13.11 | ↓ -72% |
| Health Payment Systems | Commercial | $14.70 | ↓ -69% |
| Quartz One | Commercial | $14.70 | ↓ -69% |
| HealthPartners | Employee Trust Fund | $15.59 | ↓ -67% |
| Molina Exchange | Commercial | $16.23 | ↓ -66% |
| HS Technology | Commercial | $16.55 | ↓ -65% |
| Quartz Group | Commercial | $17.05 | ↓ -64% |
| Cigna | PPO-GPPO | $17.19 | ↓ -64% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Aurora Featured | $19.05 | ↓ -60% |
| HealthPartners | Robin | $19.96 | ↓ -58% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Statewide | $20.05 | ↓ -58% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Arise | $20.05 | ↓ -58% |
| Trilogy | Commercial | $20.63 | ↓ -57% |
| 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% |
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Specimen fat stain at other Wisconsin hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HSHS St. Mary's Hospital Medical Center | GREEN BAY | $31.68 | $5.88 – $13.23 |
| HSHS St. Vincent Hospital | Green Bay | $31.68 | $5.88 – $13.23 |
| Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Ozaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) | Mequon | $19.61 | $5.88 – $18.40 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Janesville | Janesville | $47.85 | $4.41 – $34.31 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison | Madison | $49.50 | $4.41 – $35.12 |
| Aurora Sinai Medical Center of Aurora Health Care Metro | Milwaukee | $47.50 | $4.70 – $20.63 |
| Aurora Medical Center Summit | Summit | $47.50 | $4.70 – $20.63 |
| Aurora Medical Center Manitowoc | Two Rivers | $47.50 | $4.70 – $20.63 |