Vacuum drain bottle/tube kit at Aurora Medical Center Bay Area
3003 University Dr, Marinette, WI · Aurorahealthcare · · NPI 1043397177
$1,245.00
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.
$2,490.00
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.
$487.50 with HS Technology vs $824.85 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 | $487.50 | ↓ -61% |
| Everpointe Elite | Commercial | $487.50 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | HMO | $520.65 | ↓ -58% |
| Quartz One | Commercial | $536.25 | ↓ -57% |
| Anthem | Blue Preferred | $565.50 | ↓ -55% |
| United Healthcare | Exchange | $579.15 | ↓ -53% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $579.15 | ↓ -53% |
| United Healthcare | Charter | $579.15 | ↓ -53% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $579.15 | ↓ -53% |
| Anthem | Blue Priority | $585.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Quartz Group | Commercial | $585.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Molina Exchange | Commercial | $585.00 | ↓ -53% |
| HealthPartners | Employee Trust Fund | $585.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Health EOS Plus | Commercial | $585.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Aurora Caregiver | Commercial | $585.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Common Ground | Exchange | $585.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Common Ground | Employee Trust Fund | $585.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Common Ground | Envision | $585.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Aurora Featured | $604.50 | ↓ -51% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Statewide | $633.75 | ↓ -49% |
| Health Payment Systems | Commercial | $633.75 | ↓ -49% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Arise | $633.75 | ↓ -49% |
| Anthem | PPO | $672.75 | ↓ -46% |
| Trilogy | Commercial | $682.50 | ↓ -45% |
| HealthPartners | Robin | $731.25 | ↓ -41% |
| HealthPartners | Broad | $731.25 | ↓ -41% |
| Cigna | PPO-GPPO | $731.25 | ↓ -41% |
| Centivo | Commercial | $731.25 | ↓ -41% |
| Health EOS | PPO | $780.00 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | PPO | $805.35 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $820.95 | ↓ -34% |
| Cigna | PPO | $824.85 | ↓ -34% |
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Vacuum drain bottle/tube kit at other Wisconsin hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital | Madison | $925.36 | $29.51 – $306.00 |
| Aurora Sinai Medical Center of Aurora Health Care Metro | Milwaukee | $487.50 | not published |
| Aurora Baycare Medical Center | Green Bay | $487.50 | not published |
| Aurora Medical Center Fond du Lac | Fond Du Lac | $487.50 | not published |
| Aurora Medical Center Grafton | Grafton | $487.50 | not published |