Acetylcysteine 200 mg/ml (20 %) intravenous solution at Aurora Sinai Medical Center of Aurora Health Care Metro

945 N 12th St, Milwaukee, WI · Aurorahealthcare · · NPI 1861447179

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Nov 21, 2025 · Ingested Sep 16, 2026

$2.00

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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.

$3.99

Gross charge

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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.

$0.45 with Anthem vs $3.39 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Anthem Blue Priority $0.45 ↓ -78%
Anthem Blue Preferred $0.54 ↓ -73%
Aetna HMO $0.56 ↓ -72%
Aurora Caregiver Commercial $0.57 ↓ -72%
HealthPartners Employee Trust Fund $0.64 ↓ -68%
HealthPartners Robin $0.67 ↓ -67%
Common Ground Envision $0.71 ↓ -65%
Centivo Commercial $0.71 ↓ -65%
Health Payment Systems Commercial $0.74 ↓ -63%
Quartz One Commercial $0.74 ↓ -63%
Common Ground Employee Trust Fund $0.78 ↓ -61%
Common Ground Exchange $0.78 ↓ -61%
Cigna PPO-GPPO $0.83 ↓ -59%
Quartz Group Commercial $0.84 ↓ -58%
Molina Exchange Commercial $1.33 ↓ -34%
HS Technology Commercial $2.00 ↑ +0%
Wisconsin Physician Service Aurora Featured $2.07 ↑ +4%
Wisconsin Physician Service Statewide $2.19 ↑ +10%
Trilogy Commercial $2.19 ↑ +10%
Wisconsin Physician Service Arise $2.19 ↑ +10%
Everpointe Elite Commercial $2.32 ↑ +16%
United Healthcare Exchange $2.37 ↑ +19%
United Healthcare Nexus $2.37 ↑ +19%
United Healthcare Charter $2.37 ↑ +19%
United Healthcare HMO $2.37 ↑ +19%
Health EOS Plus Commercial $2.39 ↑ +20%
HealthPartners Broad $2.99 ↑ +50%
Health EOS PPO $3.19 ↑ +60%
Aetna PPO $3.30 ↑ +65%
United Healthcare PPO $3.36 ↑ +68%
Cigna PPO $3.38 ↑ +69%
Anthem PPO $3.39 ↑ +70%

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Acetylcysteine 200 mg/ml (20 %) intravenous solution at other Wisconsin hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Adventhealth Durand Durand $66.67 not published
SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Baraboo Baraboo not published $0.65 – $1.02
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Janesville Janesville not published $0.65 – $1.02
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison Madison not published $0.65 – $1.02
SSM Health Monroe Hospital Monroe not published $0.45 – $1.34
SSM Health Ripon Community Hospital Ripon not published $0.50 – $1.50
SSM Health St. Agnes Hospital - Fond du Lac Fond Du Lac not published $0.50 – $1.50
SSM Health Waupun Memorial Hospital Waupun not published $0.50 – $1.50

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