Immunofixation electrophoresis serum 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.

$17.87 with United Healthcare vs $78.41 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 $17.87
United Healthcare Exchange $17.87
United Healthcare HMO $17.87
United Healthcare Nexus $17.87
Anthem Blue Priority $22.34
Aurora Caregiver Commercial $22.34
Anthem Blue Preferred $26.81
Common Ground Employee Trust Fund $46.91
Common Ground Exchange $46.91
Centivo Commercial $48.84
Common Ground Envision $48.84
Aetna HMO $49.82
Health Payment Systems Commercial $55.85
Quartz One Commercial $55.85
HealthPartners Employee Trust Fund $59.26
Molina Exchange Commercial $61.66
HS Technology Commercial $62.86
Quartz Group Commercial $64.79
Cigna PPO-GPPO $64.98
Everpointe Elite Commercial $65.94
Wisconsin Physician Service Aurora Featured $72.38
HealthPartners Robin $75.84
Wisconsin Physician Service Arise $76.18
Wisconsin Physician Service Statewide $76.18
Trilogy Commercial $78.41

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Immunofixation electrophoresis serum 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 $235.85 $22.34 – $61.14
Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Ozaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) Mequon $235.85 $22.34 – $61.14
UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital Madison $256.00 $11.03 – $98.28
Orthopaedic Hospital of Wisconsin, LLC Glendale $130.38 $17.83 – $40.03
SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Baraboo Baraboo $277.20 $16.76 – $222.11
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Janesville Janesville $373.45 $16.76 – $177.70
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison Madison $208.45 $16.76 – $181.73
SSM Health Monroe Hospital Monroe $215.60 $22.34 – $39.10

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