Asp & inj w/heparin pleurx cath at SSM Health Ripon Community Hospital
845 Parkside St, Ripon, WI · SSM Health · · NPI 1053362624
$525.25
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.
$955.00
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.
$2,959.00 with Centivo vs $13,249.00 with BCBS — 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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| Centivo | Broad(WI1) Other Commercial Plan | $2,959.00 | ↑ +463% |
| Centivo | Value(WI3) Other Commercial Plan | $2,959.00 | ↑ +463% |
| Centivo | Median(WI2) Other Commercial Plan | $2,959.00 | ↑ +463% |
| Network Health Plan | HMO/POS | $3,030.00 | ↑ +477% |
| BCBS | Blue Preferred / Blue Preferred Plus HMO/POS | $10,779.00 | ↑ +1952% |
| BCBS | Blue Access PPO | $13,249.00 | ↑ +2422% |
| BCBS | Blue Traditional Traditional | $13,249.00 | ↑ +2422% |
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Asp & inj w/heparin pleurx cath at other Wisconsin hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital | Madison | $1,812.55 | $521.11 – $1,307.98 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison | Madison | $996.60 | $456.99 – $14,021.00 |
| SSM Health St. Agnes Hospital - Fond du Lac | Fond Du Lac | $525.25 | $465.35 – $3,030.00 |
| SSM Health Waupun Memorial Hospital | Waupun | $525.25 | $2,959.00 – $10,779.00 |
| Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Milwaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) | Milwaukee | not published | $601.86 – $1,324.09 |
| Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Ozaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) | Mequon | not published | $601.86 – $1,324.09 |
| Orthopaedic Hospital of Wisconsin, LLC | Glendale | not published | $1,898.00 – $16,897.00 |
| SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Baraboo | Baraboo | not published | $456.99 – $14,312.00 |