Procalcitonin 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.

$21.78 with United Healthcare vs $95.53 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 $21.78
United Healthcare Exchange $21.78
United Healthcare HMO $21.78
United Healthcare Nexus $21.78
Anthem Blue Priority $27.22
Aurora Caregiver Commercial $27.22
Anthem Blue Preferred $32.66
Common Ground Employee Trust Fund $57.16
Common Ground Exchange $57.16
Centivo Commercial $59.50
Common Ground Envision $59.50
Aetna HMO $60.70
Quartz One Commercial $68.05
Health Payment Systems Commercial $68.05
HealthPartners Employee Trust Fund $72.19
Molina Exchange Commercial $75.13
HS Technology Commercial $76.60
Quartz Group Commercial $78.94
Everpointe Elite Commercial $79.05
Cigna PPO-GPPO $79.32
Wisconsin Physician Service Aurora Featured $88.19
HealthPartners Robin $92.41
Wisconsin Physician Service Arise $92.82
Wisconsin Physician Service Statewide $92.82
Trilogy Commercial $95.53

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Procalcitonin 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 $174.90 $27.22 – $116.92
Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Ozaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) Mequon $174.90 $27.22 – $116.92
UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital Madison $251.57 $16.33 – $98.11
Orthopaedic Hospital of Wisconsin, LLC Glendale $98.58 $26.40 – $47.98
SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Baraboo Baraboo $68.20 $20.42 – $266.26
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Janesville Janesville $82.50 $20.42 – $213.00
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison Madison $57.20 $20.42 – $217.86
SSM Health Monroe Hospital Monroe $85.25 $27.22 – $47.64

All Wisconsin hospitals for this procedure →