Drug test def 1-7 classes 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

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Cash price

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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.

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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.

$91.54 with United Healthcare vs $401.60 with Trilogy — 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
United Healthcare Charter $91.54
United Healthcare Exchange $91.54
United Healthcare HMO $91.54
United Healthcare Nexus $91.54
Anthem Blue Priority $114.43
Aurora Caregiver Commercial $114.43
Anthem Blue Preferred $137.32
Common Ground Employee Trust Fund $240.30
Common Ground Exchange $240.30
Centivo Commercial $250.14
Common Ground Envision $250.14
Everpointe Elite Commercial $253.07
Aetna HMO $255.18
Health Payment Systems Commercial $286.08
Quartz One Commercial $286.08
HealthPartners Employee Trust Fund $303.50
Molina Exchange Commercial $315.83
HS Technology Commercial $322.01
Quartz Group Commercial $331.85
Cigna PPO-GPPO $333.54
Wisconsin Physician Service Aurora Featured $370.75
HealthPartners Robin $388.47
Wisconsin Physician Service Arise $390.21
Wisconsin Physician Service Statewide $390.21
Trilogy Commercial $401.60

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Drug test def 1-7 classes at other Wisconsin hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital Madison $339.93 $66.01 – $143.44
Orthopaedic Hospital of Wisconsin, LLC Glendale $95.40 $99.81 – $121.49
SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Baraboo Baraboo $34.38 $85.82 – $583.32
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Janesville Janesville $227.70 $85.82 – $466.65
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison Madison $162.25 $85.82 – $477.26
SSM Health Monroe Hospital Monroe $270.05 $114.43 – $200.25
SSM Health Ripon Community Hospital Ripon $188.65 $114.43 – $200.25
SSM Health St. Agnes Hospital - Fond du Lac Fond Du Lac $188.65 $85.82 – $220.85

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