Aluminum - quest at Aurora Medical Center Bay Area
3003 University Dr, Marinette, WI · Aurorahealthcare · · NPI 1043397177
$97.50
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.
$195.00
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.
$20.38 with United Healthcare vs $164.97 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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| United Healthcare | Nexus | $20.38 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | Exchange | $20.38 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $20.38 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | Charter | $20.38 | ↓ -79% |
| Anthem | Blue Priority | $25.48 | ↓ -74% |
| Aurora Caregiver | Commercial | $25.48 | ↓ -74% |
| Anthem | Blue Preferred | $30.58 | ↓ -69% |
| Anthem | PPO | $30.58 | ↓ -69% |
| Common Ground | Exchange | $53.51 | ↓ -45% |
| Common Ground | Employee Trust Fund | $53.51 | ↓ -45% |
| Common Ground | Envision | $55.70 | ↓ -43% |
| Centivo | Commercial | $55.70 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | HMO | $56.82 | ↓ -42% |
| Quartz One | Commercial | $63.70 | ↓ -35% |
| Health Payment Systems | Commercial | $63.70 | ↓ -35% |
| HealthPartners | Employee Trust Fund | $67.58 | ↓ -31% |
| Molina Exchange | Commercial | $70.32 | ↓ -28% |
| HS Technology | Commercial | $71.70 | ↓ -26% |
| Quartz Group | Commercial | $73.89 | ↓ -24% |
| Cigna | PPO-GPPO | $74.55 | ↓ -24% |
| Everpointe Elite | Commercial | $75.17 | ↓ -23% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Aurora Featured | $82.56 | ↓ -15% |
| HealthPartners | Robin | $86.50 | ↓ -11% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Statewide | $86.89 | ↓ -11% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Arise | $86.89 | ↓ -11% |
| Trilogy | Commercial | $89.43 | ↓ -8% |
| Health EOS Plus | Commercial | $117.00 | ↑ +20% |
| HealthPartners | Broad | $146.25 | ↑ +50% |
| Health EOS | PPO | $156.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Aetna | PPO | $161.07 | ↑ +65% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $164.19 | ↑ +68% |
| Cigna | PPO | $164.97 | ↑ +69% |
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Aluminum - quest at other Wisconsin hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Milwaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) | Milwaukee | $144.16 | $25.48 – $111.19 |
| Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Ozaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) | Mequon | $144.16 | $25.48 – $111.19 |
| UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital | Madison | $389.27 | $15.29 – $151.81 |
| SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Baraboo | Baraboo | $18.15 | $19.11 – $253.29 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Janesville | Janesville | $19.25 | $19.11 – $202.62 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison | Madison | $15.40 | $19.11 – $207.23 |
| SSM Health Monroe Hospital | Monroe | $124.30 | $25.48 – $44.59 |
| SSM Health Ripon Community Hospital | Ripon | $386.65 | $25.48 – $51.56 |