Revision tips at Aurora Sinai Medical Center of Aurora Health Care Metro
945 N 12th St, Milwaukee, WI · Aurorahealthcare · · NPI 1861447179
$8,940.00
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.
$17,880.00
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.
$7,688.40 with HealthPartners vs $23,358.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HealthPartners | Employee Trust Fund | $7,688.40 | ↓ -14% |
| HealthPartners | Robin | $10,370.40 | ↑ +16% |
| Health EOS Plus | Commercial | $10,728.00 | ↑ +20% |
| Common Ground | Exchange | $11,578.00 | ↑ +30% |
| Common Ground | Envision | $11,578.00 | ↑ +30% |
| Common Ground | Employee Trust Fund | $11,578.00 | ↑ +30% |
| Quartz One | Commercial | $12,250.00 | ↑ +37% |
| Aurora Caregiver | Commercial | $12,530.00 | ↑ +40% |
| Everpointe Elite | Commercial | $12,784.00 | ↑ +43% |
| HealthPartners | Broad | $13,410.00 | ↑ +50% |
| HS Technology | Commercial | $14,069.00 | ↑ +57% |
| Health EOS | PPO | $14,304.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Quartz Group | Commercial | $14,330.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Molina Exchange | Commercial | $14,344.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Aetna | PPO | $14,768.88 | ↑ +65% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $15,054.96 | ↑ +68% |
| Cigna | PPO | $15,126.48 | ↑ +69% |
| Anthem | PPO | $15,198.00 | ↑ +70% |
| Centivo | Commercial | $15,844.00 | ↑ +77% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Aurora Featured | $16,000.00 | ↑ +79% |
| Health Payment Systems | Commercial | $16,150.00 | ↑ +81% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Statewide | $16,842.00 | ↑ +88% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Arise | $16,842.00 | ↑ +88% |
| Aetna | HMO | $17,823.00 | ↑ +99% |
| Anthem | Blue Priority | $18,105.00 | ↑ +103% |
| Trilogy | Commercial | $18,718.00 | ↑ +109% |
| Cigna | PPO-GPPO | $19,000.00 | ↑ +113% |
| United Healthcare | Exchange | $20,679.00 | ↑ +131% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $20,827.00 | ↑ +133% |
| United Healthcare | Charter | $20,827.00 | ↑ +133% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $22,691.00 | ↑ +154% |
| Anthem | Blue Preferred | $23,358.00 | ↑ +161% |
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Revision tips 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 | $21,619.23 | $590.43 – $24,724.85 |
| Ascension St. Francis Hospital, Inc. | Milwaukee | not published | $21,449.48 – $21,449.48 |
| Ascension SE Wisconsin Hospital - St. Joseph Campus | Milwaukee | not published | $21,449.48 – $21,449.48 |
| Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Ozaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) | Mequon | $21,619.23 | $590.43 – $24,724.85 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison | Madison | $14,012.35 | $4,146.30 – $27,690.00 |
| Aurora Medical Center Summit | Summit | $8,940.00 | not published |
| Aurora Baycare Medical Center | Green Bay | $8,940.00 | not published |
| Aurora West Allis Medical Center | West Allis | $8,940.00 | not published |