Lactated ringers intravenous solution at Aurora Sinai Medical Center of Aurora Health Care Metro
945 N 12th St, Milwaukee, WI · Aurorahealthcare · · NPI 1861447179
$156.77
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.
$313.53
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.
$2.30 with Anthem vs $220.79 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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| Anthem | Blue Priority | $2.30 | ↓ -99% |
| Aurora Caregiver | Commercial | $2.42 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | HMO | $2.48 | ↓ -98% |
| Anthem | Blue Preferred | $2.76 | ↓ -98% |
| HealthPartners | Employee Trust Fund | $2.81 | ↓ -98% |
| HealthPartners | Robin | $2.94 | ↓ -98% |
| Common Ground | Envision | $3.16 | ↓ -98% |
| Centivo | Commercial | $3.16 | ↓ -98% |
| Quartz One | Commercial | $3.26 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Payment Systems | Commercial | $3.26 | ↓ -98% |
| Common Ground | Exchange | $3.32 | ↓ -98% |
| Common Ground | Employee Trust Fund | $3.32 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | PPO-GPPO | $3.62 | ↓ -98% |
| Quartz Group | Commercial | $3.74 | ↓ -98% |
| Everpointe Elite | Commercial | $3.93 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina Exchange | Commercial | $5.89 | ↓ -96% |
| HS Technology | Commercial | $129.88 | ↓ -17% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Aurora Featured | $135.07 | ↓ -14% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Statewide | $142.86 | ↓ -9% |
| Trilogy | Commercial | $142.86 | ↓ -9% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Arise | $142.86 | ↓ -9% |
| United Healthcare | Charter | $154.29 | ↓ -2% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $154.29 | ↓ -2% |
| United Healthcare | Exchange | $154.29 | ↓ -2% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $154.29 | ↓ -2% |
| Health EOS Plus | Commercial | $155.85 | ↓ -1% |
| HealthPartners | Broad | $194.81 | ↑ +24% |
| Health EOS | PPO | $207.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Aetna | PPO | $214.55 | ↑ +37% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $218.71 | ↑ +40% |
| Cigna | PPO | $219.75 | ↑ +40% |
| Anthem | PPO | $220.79 | ↑ +41% |
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Lactated ringers intravenous solution at other Wisconsin hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Ozaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) | Mequon | $2.65 | $2.42 – $4.91 |
| UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital | Madison | $48.00 | $2.45 – $14.30 |
| Aurora Medical Center Summit | Summit | $119.17 | $2.30 – $5.89 |
| Aurora Baycare Medical Center | Green Bay | $95.09 | $2.30 – $5.89 |
| Aurora Medical Center Manitowoc | Two Rivers | $79.48 | $2.30 – $5.89 |
| Aurora West Allis Medical Center | West Allis | $122.16 | $2.30 – $5.89 |
| Aurora Medical Center Bay Area | Marinette | $52.24 | $2.30 – $5.89 |
| Aurora Medical Center Burlington | Burlington | $113.71 | $2.30 – $5.89 |