Transcath biopsy at Aurora Sinai Medical Center of Aurora Health Care Metro
945 N 12th St, Milwaukee, WI · Aurorahealthcare · · NPI 1861447179
$4,340.00
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.
$8,680.00
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.
$3,500.00 with Cigna vs $17,327.00 with United Healthcare — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | PPO-GPPO | $3,500.00 | ↓ -19% |
| HealthPartners | Employee Trust Fund | $3,732.40 | ↓ -14% |
| HealthPartners | Robin | $5,034.40 | ↑ +16% |
| Health EOS Plus | Commercial | $5,208.00 | ↑ +20% |
| HealthPartners | Broad | $6,510.00 | ↑ +50% |
| Health EOS | PPO | $6,944.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Aetna | PPO | $7,169.68 | ↑ +65% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $7,308.56 | ↑ +68% |
| Cigna | PPO | $7,343.28 | ↑ +69% |
| Anthem | PPO | $7,378.00 | ↑ +70% |
| Common Ground | Employee Trust Fund | $8,181.00 | ↑ +89% |
| Common Ground | Exchange | $8,181.00 | ↑ +89% |
| Common Ground | Envision | $8,181.00 | ↑ +89% |
| Aetna | HMO | $8,243.00 | ↑ +90% |
| Aurora Caregiver | Commercial | $8,450.00 | ↑ +95% |
| Anthem | Blue Priority | $8,456.00 | ↑ +95% |
| Quartz One | Commercial | $8,690.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Everpointe Elite | Commercial | $9,244.00 | ↑ +113% |
| HS Technology | Commercial | $10,017.00 | ↑ +131% |
| Quartz Group | Commercial | $10,170.00 | ↑ +134% |
| Molina Exchange | Commercial | $10,418.00 | ↑ +140% |
| Anthem | Blue Preferred | $10,914.00 | ↑ +151% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Aurora Featured | $11,451.00 | ↑ +164% |
| Centivo | Commercial | $11,473.00 | ↑ +164% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Statewide | $12,054.00 | ↑ +178% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Arise | $12,054.00 | ↑ +178% |
| Health Payment Systems | Commercial | $12,100.00 | ↑ +179% |
| Trilogy | Commercial | $13,453.00 | ↑ +210% |
| United Healthcare | Exchange | $15,790.00 | ↑ +264% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $15,903.00 | ↑ +266% |
| United Healthcare | Charter | $15,903.00 | ↑ +266% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $17,327.00 | ↑ +299% |
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Transcath biopsy at other Wisconsin hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Milwaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) | Milwaukee | $4,877.59 | $338.30 – $880.97 |
| Ascension St. Francis Hospital, Inc. | Milwaukee | $3,460.90 | $822.09 – $822.09 |
| Ascension SE Wisconsin Hospital - St. Joseph Campus | Milwaukee | $3,460.90 | $822.09 – $822.09 |
| Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Ozaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) | Mequon | $7,436.96 | $338.30 – $880.97 |
| UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital | Madison | $6,692.30 | $191.84 – $2,777.30 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Janesville | Janesville | $2,488.20 | $4,203.64 – $16,582.00 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison | Madison | $2,869.35 | $4,053.72 – $18,955.00 |
| SSM Health Monroe Hospital | Monroe | $786.50 | $5,404.97 – $17,116.00 |