Even within the same city, hospitals can charge wildly different prices for similar care. We used Amino's Facility Cost Ratings™ — dollar signs that help employees identify cost-effective hospitals — to find the five most and least expensive hospitals in Milwaukee. Below is a peek into our data.

The most expensive hospitals

These five hospitals have the highest Facility Cost Rating™ in Milwaukee, averaged across all insurers.

Hospital	Facility Cost Rating™	Safety Grade
Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, St Francis Hospital		C
Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, Franklin Hospital		B
Aurora Medical Center, Grafton		A
Aurora St Luke's Medical Center		C
Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, St Joseph Hospital		C

The least expensive hospitals

These five hospitals have lowest Facility Cost Rating™ in Milwaukee, averaged across all insurers.

Hospital	Facility Cost Rating™	Safety Grade
Columbia St Marys Hospital, Milwaukee		C
Oconomowoc Memorial Hospital		A
Columbia St Mary's Hospital, Ozaukee		C
Waukesha Memorial Hospital		A
Aurora St Luke's South Shore		C

How we rate hospitals by cost

Amino’s Facility Cost Ratings™ are an easy to understand, symbolic system of dollar signs ranging from one dollar sign denoting “inexpensive” to four dollar signs denoting “expensive.”Facility Cost Ratings™ appear on the profiles of all facilities (hospitals, imaging centers, and urgent care centers) in our Amino's healthcare transparency product.

The Facility Cost Ratings™ you see in this post are averaged across all insurers. On Amino, employees see Facility Cost Ratings™ specific to their network and plan.