Warde lipoprotein (a) 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.

$11.46 with United Healthcare vs $50.26 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 $11.46
United Healthcare Exchange $11.46
United Healthcare HMO $11.46
United Healthcare Nexus $11.46
Anthem Blue Priority $14.32
Aurora Caregiver Commercial $14.32
Anthem Blue Preferred $17.18
Common Ground Employee Trust Fund $30.07
Common Ground Exchange $30.07
Centivo Commercial $31.30
Common Ground Envision $31.30
Aetna HMO $31.93
Health Payment Systems Commercial $35.80
Quartz One Commercial $35.80
HealthPartners Employee Trust Fund $37.98
Everpointe Elite Commercial $38.20
Molina Exchange Commercial $39.52
HS Technology Commercial $40.30
Quartz Group Commercial $41.53
Cigna PPO-GPPO $42.06
Wisconsin Physician Service Aurora Featured $46.40
HealthPartners Robin $48.62
Wisconsin Physician Service Arise $48.83
Wisconsin Physician Service Statewide $48.83
Trilogy Commercial $50.26

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Warde lipoprotein (a) 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 $116.60 $14.32 – $56.18
Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Ozaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) Mequon $116.60 $14.32 – $56.18
UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital Madison $160.18 $8.59 – $62.47
Orthopaedic Hospital of Wisconsin, LLC Glendale $190.27 $13.89 – $23.19
SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Baraboo Baraboo $15.95 $10.74 – $128.65
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Janesville Janesville $17.60 $10.74 – $102.92
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison Madison $13.75 $10.74 – $105.26
SSM Health Monroe Hospital Monroe $78.10 $14.32 – $25.06

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