Renal function panel at Aurora Psychiatric Hospital
1220 Dewey Ave, Wauwatosa, WI · Aurorahealthcare · · NPI 1881627438
$142.50
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.
$285.00
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.
$6.94 with United Healthcare vs $242.25 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 | Exchange | $6.94 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $6.94 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $6.94 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | Charter | $6.94 | ↓ -95% |
| Aurora Caregiver | Commercial | $8.68 | ↓ -94% |
| Anthem | Blue Priority | $8.68 | ↓ -94% |
| Anthem | Blue Preferred | $10.42 | ↓ -93% |
| Common Ground | Exchange | $18.23 | ↓ -87% |
| Common Ground | Employee Trust Fund | $18.23 | ↓ -87% |
| Centivo | Commercial | $18.97 | ↓ -87% |
| Common Ground | Envision | $18.97 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | HMO | $19.36 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Payment Systems | Commercial | $21.70 | ↓ -85% |
| Quartz One | Commercial | $21.70 | ↓ -85% |
| HealthPartners | Employee Trust Fund | $23.02 | ↓ -84% |
| Molina Exchange | Commercial | $23.96 | ↓ -83% |
| HS Technology | Commercial | $24.43 | ↓ -83% |
| Quartz Group | Commercial | $25.17 | ↓ -82% |
| Everpointe Elite | Commercial | $25.62 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | PPO-GPPO | $25.80 | ↓ -82% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Aurora Featured | $28.12 | ↓ -80% |
| HealthPartners | Robin | $29.47 | ↓ -79% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Arise | $29.60 | ↓ -79% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Statewide | $29.60 | ↓ -79% |
| Trilogy | Commercial | $30.46 | ↓ -79% |
| Health EOS Plus | Commercial | $171.00 | ↑ +20% |
| HealthPartners | Broad | $213.75 | ↑ +50% |
| Health EOS | PPO | $228.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Aetna | PPO | $235.41 | ↑ +65% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $239.97 | ↑ +68% |
| Cigna | PPO | $241.11 | ↑ +69% |
| Anthem | PPO | $242.25 | ↑ +70% |
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Renal function panel 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 | $72.08 | $8.68 – $37.82 |
| Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Ozaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) | Mequon | $72.08 | $8.68 – $37.82 |
| UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital | Madison | $150.38 | $5.21 – $58.65 |
| SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Baraboo | Baraboo | $214.50 | $6.51 – $86.32 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Janesville | Janesville | $210.10 | $6.51 – $69.05 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison | Madison | $199.65 | $6.51 – $70.63 |
| SSM Health Monroe Hospital | Monroe | $84.15 | $8.68 – $15.19 |
| SSM Health Ripon Community Hospital | Ripon | $57.75 | $8.68 – $17.57 |