Ultrasound chest at Aurora Medical Center Bay Area
3003 University Dr, Marinette, WI · Aurorahealthcare · · NPI 1043397177
$505.00
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.
$1,010.00
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.
$300.00 with Aurora Caregiver vs $700.00 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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| Aurora Caregiver | Commercial | $300.00 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | HMO | $301.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Quartz One | Commercial | $315.00 | ↓ -38% |
| HS Technology | Commercial | $366.00 | ↓ -28% |
| Anthem | Blue Preferred | $367.00 | ↓ -27% |
| Anthem | PPO | $367.00 | ↓ -27% |
| Anthem | Blue Priority | $367.00 | ↓ -27% |
| Common Ground | Employee Trust Fund | $368.00 | ↓ -27% |
| Common Ground | Exchange | $368.00 | ↓ -27% |
| Common Ground | Envision | $368.00 | ↓ -27% |
| Quartz Group | Commercial | $370.00 | ↓ -27% |
| HealthPartners | Employee Trust Fund | $372.00 | ↓ -26% |
| Centivo | Commercial | $383.00 | ↓ -24% |
| Molina Exchange | Commercial | $392.00 | ↓ -22% |
| Everpointe Elite | Commercial | $406.00 | ↓ -20% |
| Health EOS Plus | Commercial | $423.00 | ↓ -16% |
| HealthPartners | Robin | $478.00 | ↓ -5% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Aurora Featured | $499.00 | ↓ -1% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Statewide | $525.00 | ↑ +4% |
| Health Payment Systems | Commercial | $525.00 | ↑ +4% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Arise | $525.00 | ↑ +4% |
| Trilogy | Commercial | $526.00 | ↑ +4% |
| HealthPartners | Broad | $528.75 | ↑ +5% |
| Health EOS | PPO | $564.00 | ↑ +12% |
| United Healthcare | Exchange | $581.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | PPO | $582.33 | ↑ +15% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $586.00 | ↑ +16% |
| United Healthcare | Charter | $586.00 | ↑ +16% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $593.61 | ↑ +18% |
| Cigna | PPO | $596.43 | ↑ +18% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $638.00 | ↑ +26% |
| Cigna | PPO-GPPO | $700.00 | ↑ +39% |
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Ultrasound chest 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 | $504.03 | $45.12 – $245.18 |
| Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Ozaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) | Mequon | $504.03 | $45.12 – $245.18 |
| UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital | Madison | $919.47 | $25.29 – $381.58 |
| SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Baraboo | Baraboo | $707.30 | $76.16 – $662.10 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Janesville | Janesville | $884.40 | $78.98 – $475.14 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison | Madison | $748.00 | $76.16 – $498.51 |
| SSM Health Monroe Hospital | Monroe | $489.50 | $101.55 – $162.32 |
| SSM Health Ripon Community Hospital | Ripon | $470.80 | $203.89 – $203.89 |