Culture type pulse field gel at Aurora Medical Center Summit
36500 Aurora Dr, Summit, WI · Aurorahealthcare · · NPI 1699008029
$120.00
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.
$240.00
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.
$6.19 with United Healthcare vs $204.00 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 |
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| United Healthcare | Charter | $6.19 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $6.19 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | Exchange | $6.19 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $6.19 | ↓ -95% |
| Anthem | Blue Priority | $7.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Aurora Caregiver | Commercial | $7.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Anthem | Blue Preferred | $9.29 | ↓ -92% |
| Everpointe Elite | Commercial | $15.45 | ↓ -87% |
| Common Ground | Employee Trust Fund | $16.25 | ↓ -86% |
| Common Ground | Exchange | $16.25 | ↓ -86% |
| Common Ground | Envision | $16.92 | ↓ -86% |
| Centivo | Commercial | $16.92 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | HMO | $17.26 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Payment Systems | Commercial | $19.35 | ↓ -84% |
| Quartz One | Commercial | $19.35 | ↓ -84% |
| HealthPartners | Employee Trust Fund | $20.53 | ↓ -83% |
| Molina Exchange | Commercial | $21.36 | ↓ -82% |
| HS Technology | Commercial | $21.78 | ↓ -82% |
| Quartz Group | Commercial | $22.45 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | PPO-GPPO | $22.95 | ↓ -81% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Aurora Featured | $25.08 | ↓ -79% |
| HealthPartners | Robin | $26.28 | ↓ -78% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Statewide | $26.39 | ↓ -78% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Arise | $26.39 | ↓ -78% |
| Trilogy | Commercial | $27.16 | ↓ -77% |
| Health EOS Plus | Commercial | $144.00 | ↑ +20% |
| HealthPartners | Broad | $180.00 | ↑ +50% |
| Health EOS | PPO | $192.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Aetna | PPO | $198.24 | ↑ +65% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $202.08 | ↑ +68% |
| Cigna | PPO | $203.04 | ↑ +69% |
| Anthem | PPO | $204.00 | ↑ +70% |
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Culture type pulse field gel at other Wisconsin hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital | Madison | $22.99 | $4.64 – $10.49 |
| Aurora Sinai Medical Center of Aurora Health Care Metro | Milwaukee | $120.00 | $6.19 – $27.16 |
| Aurora Baycare Medical Center | Green Bay | $120.00 | $6.19 – $27.16 |
| Aurora Medical Center Manitowoc | Two Rivers | $120.00 | $6.19 – $27.16 |
| Aurora West Allis Medical Center | West Allis | $120.00 | $6.19 – $27.16 |
| Aurora Medical Center Bay Area | Marinette | $120.00 | $6.19 – $27.16 |
| Aurora Medical Center Burlington | Burlington | $120.00 | $6.19 – $27.16 |
| Aurora Medical Center Washington County | Hartford | $120.00 | $6.19 – $27.16 |