Alcohol (ethanol) any specimen except urine/breath at Aurora Psychiatric Hospital
1220 Dewey Ave, Wauwatosa, WI · Aurorahealthcare · · NPI 1881627438
$112.50
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.
$225.00
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.
$13.82 with United Healthcare vs $191.25 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 | Nexus | $13.82 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | Exchange | $13.82 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $13.82 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | Charter | $13.82 | ↓ -88% |
| Aurora Caregiver | Commercial | $17.27 | ↓ -85% |
| Anthem | Blue Priority | $17.27 | ↓ -85% |
| Anthem | Blue Preferred | $20.72 | ↓ -82% |
| Common Ground | Employee Trust Fund | $36.27 | ↓ -68% |
| Common Ground | Exchange | $36.27 | ↓ -68% |
| Centivo | Commercial | $37.75 | ↓ -66% |
| Common Ground | Envision | $37.75 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | HMO | $38.51 | ↓ -66% |
| Quartz One | Commercial | $43.18 | ↓ -62% |
| Health Payment Systems | Commercial | $43.18 | ↓ -62% |
| HealthPartners | Employee Trust Fund | $45.80 | ↓ -59% |
| Molina Exchange | Commercial | $47.67 | ↓ -58% |
| HS Technology | Commercial | $48.60 | ↓ -57% |
| Quartz Group | Commercial | $50.08 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | PPO-GPPO | $50.64 | ↓ -55% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Aurora Featured | $55.95 | ↓ -50% |
| HealthPartners | Robin | $58.63 | ↓ -48% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Statewide | $58.89 | ↓ -48% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Arise | $58.89 | ↓ -48% |
| Trilogy | Commercial | $60.61 | ↓ -46% |
| Everpointe Elite | Commercial | $112.50 | ↑ +0% |
| Health EOS Plus | Commercial | $135.00 | ↑ +20% |
| HealthPartners | Broad | $168.75 | ↑ +50% |
| Health EOS | PPO | $180.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Aetna | PPO | $185.85 | ↑ +65% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $189.45 | ↑ +68% |
| Cigna | PPO | $190.35 | ↑ +69% |
| Anthem | PPO | $191.25 | ↑ +70% |
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Alcohol (ethanol) any specimen except urine/breath at other Wisconsin hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Milwaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) | Milwaukee | $73.14 | $17.27 – $57.85 |
| UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital | Madison | $75.20 | $10.36 – $20.26 |
| SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Baraboo | Baraboo | $183.15 | $12.95 – $126.02 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Janesville | Janesville | $227.70 | $12.95 – $100.82 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison | Madison | $179.30 | $12.95 – $103.11 |
| SSM Health Monroe Hospital | Monroe | $80.30 | $17.27 – $30.22 |
| SSM Health Ripon Community Hospital | Ripon | $31.35 | $17.27 – $30.22 |
| SSM Health St. Agnes Hospital - Fond du Lac | Fond Du Lac | $31.35 | $12.95 – $33.33 |