Echo stress at Aurora Sinai Medical Center of Aurora Health Care Metro
945 N 12th St, Milwaukee, WI · Aurorahealthcare · · NPI 1861447179
$2,030.00
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.
$4,060.00
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.
$2,030.00 with Everpointe Elite vs $3,451.00 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.
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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| Everpointe Elite | Commercial | $2,030.00 | ↑ +0% |
| HS Technology | Commercial | $2,030.00 | ↑ +0% |
| Molina Exchange | Commercial | $2,069.00 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna | HMO | $2,168.04 | ↑ +7% |
| United Healthcare | Exchange | $2,201.00 | ↑ +8% |
| United Healthcare | Charter | $2,217.00 | ↑ +9% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $2,217.00 | ↑ +9% |
| Quartz One | Commercial | $2,233.00 | ↑ +10% |
| Anthem | Blue Priority | $2,295.00 | ↑ +13% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $2,415.00 | ↑ +19% |
| Common Ground | Envision | $2,436.00 | ↑ +20% |
| HealthPartners | Employee Trust Fund | $2,436.00 | ↑ +20% |
| Health EOS Plus | Commercial | $2,436.00 | ↑ +20% |
| Quartz Group | Commercial | $2,436.00 | ↑ +20% |
| Aurora Caregiver | Commercial | $2,436.00 | ↑ +20% |
| Common Ground | Exchange | $2,436.00 | ↑ +20% |
| Common Ground | Employee Trust Fund | $2,436.00 | ↑ +20% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Aurora Featured | $2,517.20 | ↑ +24% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Statewide | $2,639.00 | ↑ +30% |
| Health Payment Systems | Commercial | $2,639.00 | ↑ +30% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Arise | $2,639.00 | ↑ +30% |
| Trilogy | Commercial | $2,842.00 | ↑ +40% |
| Anthem | Blue Preferred | $2,958.00 | ↑ +46% |
| HealthPartners | Robin | $3,045.00 | ↑ +50% |
| Cigna | PPO-GPPO | $3,045.00 | ↑ +50% |
| HealthPartners | Broad | $3,045.00 | ↑ +50% |
| Centivo | Commercial | $3,045.00 | ↑ +50% |
| Health EOS | PPO | $3,248.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Aetna | PPO | $3,353.56 | ↑ +65% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $3,418.52 | ↑ +68% |
| Cigna | PPO | $3,434.76 | ↑ +69% |
| Anthem | PPO | $3,451.00 | ↑ +70% |
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Echo stress at other Wisconsin hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ascension St. Francis Hospital, Inc. | Milwaukee | $2,215.40 | $239.46 – $745.37 |
| Ascension SE Wisconsin Hospital - St. Joseph Campus | Milwaukee | $2,215.40 | $239.46 – $745.37 |
| Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Milwaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) | Milwaukee | not published | $112.74 – $1,174.27 |
| Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Ozaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) | Mequon | $436.19 | $112.74 – $1,174.27 |
| UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital | Madison | $2,641.45 | $63.75 – $1,030.16 |
| SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Baraboo | Baraboo | $821.15 | $398.06 – $530.75 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Janesville | Janesville | $709.50 | $412.78 – $550.38 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison | Madison | $711.70 | $398.06 – $530.75 |