Assay of estrogen at Aurora Medical Center Summit

36500 Aurora Dr, Summit, WI · Aurorahealthcare · · NPI 1699008029

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.

$70.30 with United Healthcare vs $308.43 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 $70.30
United Healthcare Exchange $70.30
United Healthcare HMO $70.30
United Healthcare Nexus $70.30
Anthem Blue Priority $87.88
Aurora Caregiver Commercial $87.88
Anthem Blue Preferred $105.46
Common Ground Employee Trust Fund $184.55
Common Ground Exchange $184.55
Everpointe Elite Commercial $190.07
Centivo Commercial $192.11
Common Ground Envision $192.11
Aetna HMO $195.97
Quartz One Commercial $219.70
Health Payment Systems Commercial $219.70
HealthPartners Employee Trust Fund $233.08
Molina Exchange Commercial $242.55
HS Technology Commercial $247.29
Quartz Group Commercial $254.85
Cigna PPO-GPPO $256.11
Wisconsin Physician Service Aurora Featured $284.73
HealthPartners Robin $298.34
Wisconsin Physician Service Arise $299.67
Wisconsin Physician Service Statewide $299.67
Trilogy Commercial $308.43

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Assay of estrogen 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 $208.82 $87.88 – $280.83
Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Milwaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) Milwaukee not published $87.88 – $280.83
UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital Madison not published $52.73 – $123.04
Orthopaedic Hospital of Wisconsin, LLC Glendale not published $85.24 – $115.39
SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Baraboo Baraboo not published $65.91 – $640.22
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Janesville Janesville not published $65.91 – $512.19
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison Madison not published $65.91 – $523.82
SSM Health Monroe Hospital Monroe not published $87.88 – $153.79

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