Screen cerv/vag thin layer 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.

$16.21 with United Healthcare vs $71.10 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 $16.21
United Healthcare Nexus $16.21
United Healthcare Exchange $16.21
United Healthcare HMO $16.21
Anthem Blue Priority $20.26
Aurora Caregiver Commercial $20.26
Anthem Blue Preferred $24.31
Common Ground Employee Trust Fund $42.55
Common Ground Exchange $42.55
Centivo Commercial $44.29
Common Ground Envision $44.29
Aetna HMO $45.18
Health Payment Systems Commercial $50.65
Quartz One Commercial $50.65
HealthPartners Employee Trust Fund $53.74
Molina Exchange Commercial $55.92
HS Technology Commercial $57.01
Quartz Group Commercial $58.75
Cigna PPO-GPPO $59.25
Everpointe Elite Commercial $59.78
Wisconsin Physician Service Aurora Featured $65.64
HealthPartners Robin $68.78
Wisconsin Physician Service Arise $69.09
Wisconsin Physician Service Statewide $69.09
Trilogy Commercial $71.10

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Screen cerv/vag thin layer at other Wisconsin hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Ozaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) Mequon $111.30 $21.27 – $78.27
UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital Madison $74.40 $12.16 – $30.68
SSM Health Monroe Hospital Monroe $90.20 $20.26 – $35.46
HSHS St. Mary's Hospital Medical Center GREEN BAY $125.40 $20.26 – $45.59
HSHS St. Nicholas Hospital SHEBOYGAN $125.40 $20.26 – $45.59
HSHS St. Clare Memorial Hospital OCONTO FALLS $125.40 $20.26 – $26.34
HSHS St. Vincent Hospital Green Bay $125.40 $20.26 – $45.59
SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Baraboo Baraboo not published $15.20 – $201.41

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