Incision of thigh tendons at Aurora Sinai Medical Center of Aurora Health Care Metro
945 N 12th St, Milwaukee, WI · Aurorahealthcare · · NPI 1861447179
$3,785.00
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.
$7,570.00
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.
$3,255.10 with HealthPartners vs $13,453.00 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HealthPartners | Employee Trust Fund | $3,255.10 | ↓ -14% |
| HealthPartners | Robin | $4,390.60 | ↑ +16% |
| Health EOS Plus | Commercial | $4,542.00 | ↑ +20% |
| HealthPartners | Broad | $5,677.50 | ↑ +50% |
| Anthem | Blue Priority | $5,692.00 | ↑ +50% |
| Health EOS | PPO | $6,056.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Aetna | PPO | $6,252.82 | ↑ +65% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $6,373.94 | ↑ +68% |
| Cigna | PPO | $6,404.22 | ↑ +69% |
| Anthem | PPO | $6,434.50 | ↑ +70% |
| Aetna | HMO | $6,461.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Anthem | Blue Preferred | $7,344.00 | ↑ +94% |
| Common Ground | Employee Trust Fund | $8,181.00 | ↑ +116% |
| Common Ground | Exchange | $8,181.00 | ↑ +116% |
| Common Ground | Envision | $8,181.00 | ↑ +116% |
| Aurora Caregiver | Commercial | $8,450.00 | ↑ +123% |
| Quartz One | Commercial | $8,690.00 | ↑ +130% |
| Everpointe Elite | Commercial | $9,244.00 | ↑ +144% |
| Cigna | PPO-GPPO | $9,600.00 | ↑ +154% |
| HS Technology | Commercial | $10,017.00 | ↑ +165% |
| Quartz Group | Commercial | $10,170.00 | ↑ +169% |
| Molina Exchange | Commercial | $10,418.00 | ↑ +175% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Aurora Featured | $11,451.00 | ↑ +203% |
| Centivo | Commercial | $11,473.00 | ↑ +203% |
| United Healthcare | Exchange | $11,511.00 | ↑ +204% |
| United Healthcare | Charter | $11,594.00 | ↑ +206% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $11,594.00 | ↑ +206% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Statewide | $12,054.00 | ↑ +218% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Arise | $12,054.00 | ↑ +218% |
| Health Payment Systems | Commercial | $12,100.00 | ↑ +220% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $12,631.00 | ↑ +234% |
| Trilogy | Commercial | $13,453.00 | ↑ +255% |
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Incision of thigh tendons 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 | not published | $667.88 – $1,876.90 |
| Ascension St. Francis Hospital, Inc. | Milwaukee | not published | $1,668.95 – $1,668.95 |
| Ascension SE Wisconsin Hospital - St. Joseph Campus | Milwaukee | not published | $1,668.95 – $1,668.95 |
| UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital | Madison | $6,757.75 | $386.33 – $2,635.52 |
| SSM Health Ripon Community Hospital | Ripon | $2,375.45 | $3,735.00 – $8,770.00 |
| SSM Health St. Agnes Hospital - Fond du Lac | Fond Du Lac | $2,375.45 | $2,427.27 – $8,770.00 |
| SSM Health Waupun Memorial Hospital | Waupun | $2,375.45 | $3,735.00 – $8,770.00 |
| Aurora Medical Center Summit | Summit | $3,785.00 | not published |