Acetone qualitative at Aurora Medical Center Fond du Lac

210 Wisconsin American Dr., Fond Du Lac, WI · Aurorahealthcare · · NPI 1275578064

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.

$3.62 with United Healthcare vs $15.86 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 $3.62
United Healthcare Exchange $3.62
United Healthcare HMO $3.62
United Healthcare Nexus $3.62
Anthem Blue Priority $4.52
Aurora Caregiver Commercial $4.52
Anthem Blue Preferred $5.42
Common Ground Employee Trust Fund $9.49
Common Ground Exchange $9.49
Centivo Commercial $9.88
Common Ground Envision $9.88
Aetna HMO $10.08
Quartz One Commercial $11.30
Health Payment Systems Commercial $11.30
HealthPartners Employee Trust Fund $11.99
Molina Exchange Commercial $12.48
HS Technology Commercial $12.72
Quartz Group Commercial $13.11
Everpointe Elite Commercial $13.34
Cigna PPO-GPPO $13.38
Wisconsin Physician Service Aurora Featured $14.64
HealthPartners Robin $15.35
Wisconsin Physician Service Arise $15.41
Wisconsin Physician Service Statewide $15.41
Trilogy Commercial $15.86

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Acetone qualitative at other Wisconsin hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
SSM Health St. Agnes Hospital - Fond du Lac Fond Du Lac not published $3.39 – $8.72
Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Milwaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) Milwaukee $7.42 $4.52 – $19.50
Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Ozaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) Mequon $14.84 $4.52 – $19.50
UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital Madison $24.80 $2.71 – $11.47
SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Baraboo Baraboo $33.00 $3.39 – $44.95
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Janesville Janesville $40.15 $3.39 – $35.95
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison Madison $27.50 $3.39 – $36.77
SSM Health Monroe Hospital Monroe $34.65 $4.52 – $7.91

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