Assay alkaline phosphatase at Aurora Psychiatric Hospital

1220 Dewey Ave, Wauwatosa, WI · Aurorahealthcare · · NPI 1881627438

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.

$6.61 with United Healthcare vs $28.98 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 $6.61
United Healthcare Exchange $6.61
United Healthcare HMO $6.61
United Healthcare Nexus $6.61
Anthem Blue Priority $8.26
Aurora Caregiver Commercial $8.26
Anthem Blue Preferred $9.91
Common Ground Employee Trust Fund $17.35
Common Ground Exchange $17.35
Centivo Commercial $18.06
Common Ground Envision $18.06
Aetna HMO $18.42
Quartz One Commercial $20.65
Health Payment Systems Commercial $20.65
Everpointe Elite Commercial $21.55
HealthPartners Employee Trust Fund $21.91
Molina Exchange Commercial $22.80
HS Technology Commercial $23.24
Cigna PPO-GPPO $23.88
Quartz Group Commercial $23.95
Wisconsin Physician Service Aurora Featured $26.76
HealthPartners Robin $28.04
Wisconsin Physician Service Arise $28.17
Wisconsin Physician Service Statewide $28.17
Trilogy Commercial $28.98

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Assay alkaline phosphatase at other Wisconsin hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Ozaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) Mequon $14.31 $8.26 – $32.09
Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Milwaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) Milwaukee not published $8.26 – $32.09
UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital Madison not published $4.96 – $11.56
Orthopaedic Hospital of Wisconsin, LLC Glendale not published $8.01 – $13.07
SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Baraboo Baraboo not published $6.20 – $72.60
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Janesville Janesville not published $6.20 – $58.08
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison Madison not published $6.20 – $59.39
SSM Health Monroe Hospital Monroe not published $8.26 – $14.46

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