Sodium chloride 0.9 % IV bolus at Aurora Medical Center Summit
36500 Aurora Dr, Summit, WI · Aurorahealthcare · · NPI 1699008029
$63.00
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.
$126.00
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.
$0.62 with Anthem vs $94.14 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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| Anthem | Blue Priority | $0.62 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | HMO | $0.64 | ↓ -99% |
| Aurora Caregiver | Commercial | $0.64 | ↓ -99% |
| HealthPartners | Employee Trust Fund | $0.73 | ↓ -99% |
| Anthem | Blue Preferred | $0.74 | ↓ -99% |
| HealthPartners | Robin | $0.76 | ↓ -99% |
| Common Ground | Envision | $0.82 | ↓ -99% |
| Centivo | Commercial | $0.82 | ↓ -99% |
| Quartz One | Commercial | $0.85 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Payment Systems | Commercial | $0.85 | ↓ -99% |
| Common Ground | Exchange | $0.88 | ↓ -99% |
| Common Ground | Employee Trust Fund | $0.88 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | PPO-GPPO | $0.95 | ↓ -98% |
| Quartz Group | Commercial | $0.97 | ↓ -98% |
| Everpointe Elite | Commercial | $1.02 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina Exchange | Commercial | $1.53 | ↓ -98% |
| HS Technology | Commercial | $55.38 | ↓ -12% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Aurora Featured | $57.59 | ↓ -9% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Statewide | $60.91 | ↓ -3% |
| Trilogy | Commercial | $60.91 | ↓ -3% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Arise | $60.91 | ↓ -3% |
| United Healthcare | Charter | $65.79 | ↑ +4% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $65.79 | ↑ +4% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $65.79 | ↑ +4% |
| United Healthcare | Exchange | $65.79 | ↑ +4% |
| Health EOS Plus | Commercial | $66.45 | ↑ +5% |
| HealthPartners | Broad | $83.06 | ↑ +32% |
| Health EOS | PPO | $88.60 | ↑ +41% |
| Aetna | PPO | $91.48 | ↑ +45% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $93.25 | ↑ +48% |
| Cigna | PPO | $93.69 | ↑ +49% |
| Anthem | PPO | $94.14 | ↑ +49% |
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Sodium chloride 0.9 % IV bolus at other Wisconsin hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital | Madison | $14.40 | $0.67 – $15.30 |
| Aurora Sinai Medical Center of Aurora Health Care Metro | Milwaukee | $97.53 | $0.62 – $1.53 |
| Aurora Baycare Medical Center | Green Bay | $55.87 | $0.62 – $1.53 |
| Aurora Medical Center Manitowoc | Two Rivers | $37.19 | $0.62 – $1.53 |
| Aurora West Allis Medical Center | West Allis | $65.96 | $0.62 – $1.53 |
| Aurora Medical Center Bay Area | Marinette | $10.89 | $0.62 – $1.53 |
| Aurora Medical Center Burlington | Burlington | $56.46 | $0.62 – $1.53 |
| Aurora Medical Center Washington County | Hartford | $51.76 | $0.62 – $1.53 |