Alginate dressing <=16 sq in at Aurora Medical Center Bay Area
3003 University Dr, Marinette, WI · Aurorahealthcare · · NPI 1043397177
$3.33
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.
$6.66
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.
$2.59 with HS Technology vs $4.37 with Cigna — 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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| HS Technology | Commercial | $2.59 | ↓ -22% |
| Everpointe Elite | Commercial | $2.59 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | HMO | $2.76 | ↓ -17% |
| Quartz One | Commercial | $2.84 | ↓ -15% |
| Anthem | Blue Preferred | $3.00 | ↓ -10% |
| United Healthcare | Exchange | $3.07 | ↓ -8% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $3.07 | ↓ -8% |
| United Healthcare | Charter | $3.07 | ↓ -8% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $3.07 | ↓ -8% |
| Anthem | Blue Priority | $3.10 | ↓ -7% |
| Quartz Group | Commercial | $3.10 | ↓ -7% |
| Molina Exchange | Commercial | $3.10 | ↓ -7% |
| HealthPartners | Employee Trust Fund | $3.10 | ↓ -7% |
| Health EOS Plus | Commercial | $3.10 | ↓ -7% |
| Aurora Caregiver | Commercial | $3.10 | ↓ -7% |
| Common Ground | Exchange | $3.10 | ↓ -7% |
| Common Ground | Employee Trust Fund | $3.10 | ↓ -7% |
| Common Ground | Envision | $3.10 | ↓ -7% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Aurora Featured | $3.21 | ↓ -4% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Statewide | $3.36 | ↑ +1% |
| Health Payment Systems | Commercial | $3.36 | ↑ +1% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Arise | $3.36 | ↑ +1% |
| Anthem | PPO | $3.57 | ↑ +7% |
| Trilogy | Commercial | $3.62 | ↑ +9% |
| HealthPartners | Robin | $3.88 | ↑ +17% |
| HealthPartners | Broad | $3.88 | ↑ +17% |
| Cigna | PPO-GPPO | $3.88 | ↑ +17% |
| Centivo | Commercial | $3.88 | ↑ +17% |
| Health EOS | PPO | $4.14 | ↑ +24% |
| Aetna | PPO | $4.27 | ↑ +28% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $4.35 | ↑ +31% |
| Cigna | PPO | $4.37 | ↑ +31% |
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Alginate dressing <=16 sq in at other Wisconsin hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Aurora Sinai Medical Center of Aurora Health Care Metro | Milwaukee | $21.55 | not published |
| Aurora Medical Center Summit | Summit | $13.57 | not published |
| Aurora Baycare Medical Center | Green Bay | $11.95 | not published |
| Aurora Medical Center Manitowoc | Two Rivers | $11.17 | not published |
| Aurora West Allis Medical Center | West Allis | $22.26 | not published |
| Aurora Medical Center Burlington | Burlington | $12.70 | not published |
| Aurora Medical Center Washington County | Hartford | $18.47 | not published |
| Aurora Medical Center Fond du Lac | Fond Du Lac | $11.47 | not published |