Assay of procainamide w/metab 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.

$13.40 with United Healthcare vs $58.78 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 $13.40
United Healthcare Exchange $13.40
United Healthcare HMO $13.40
United Healthcare Nexus $13.40
Anthem Blue Priority $16.75
Aurora Caregiver Commercial $16.75
Anthem Blue Preferred $20.10
Common Ground Employee Trust Fund $35.18
Common Ground Exchange $35.18
Centivo Commercial $36.62
Common Ground Envision $36.62
Aetna HMO $37.35
Health Payment Systems Commercial $41.88
Quartz One Commercial $41.88
HealthPartners Employee Trust Fund $44.42
Molina Exchange Commercial $46.23
HS Technology Commercial $47.13
Quartz Group Commercial $48.58
Cigna PPO-GPPO $48.75
Everpointe Elite Commercial $49.44
Wisconsin Physician Service Aurora Featured $54.27
HealthPartners Robin $56.87
Wisconsin Physician Service Arise $57.12
Wisconsin Physician Service Statewide $57.12
Trilogy Commercial $58.78

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Assay of procainamide w/metab at other Wisconsin hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Milwaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) Milwaukee $155.29 $16.75 – $73.37
Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Ozaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) Mequon $155.29 $16.75 – $73.37
UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital Madison $72.00 $10.05 – $33.30
SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Baraboo Baraboo $32.45 $12.56 – $166.50
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Janesville Janesville $27.50 $12.56 – $133.22
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison Madison $28.60 $12.56 – $136.24
Aurora Sinai Medical Center of Aurora Health Care Metro Milwaukee $110.00 $13.40 – $58.78
Aurora Medical Center Summit Summit $110.00 $13.40 – $58.78

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