Ankle X-ray at Aurora West Allis Medical Center
8901 W Lincoln Ave, West Allis, WI · Aurorahealthcare · · NPI 1407801640
$630.00
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.
$1,260.00
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.
$200.00 with Aetna vs $535.50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | HMO | $200.00 | ↓ -68% |
| Aurora Caregiver | Commercial | $240.00 | ↓ -62% |
| Quartz One | Commercial | $245.00 | ↓ -61% |
| Common Ground | Exchange | $249.00 | ↓ -60% |
| Common Ground | Envision | $249.00 | ↓ -60% |
| Common Ground | Employee Trust Fund | $249.00 | ↓ -60% |
| Everpointe Elite | Commercial | $259.00 | ↓ -59% |
| HealthPartners | Employee Trust Fund | $266.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Anthem | Blue Priority | $275.00 | ↓ -56% |
| Quartz Group | Commercial | $290.00 | ↓ -54% |
| HS Technology | Commercial | $293.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Aurora Featured | $299.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Molina Exchange | Commercial | $308.00 | ↓ -51% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Statewide | $315.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Arise | $315.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Centivo | Commercial | $328.00 | ↓ -48% |
| HealthPartners | Robin | $330.00 | ↓ -48% |
| United Healthcare | Exchange | $336.00 | ↓ -47% |
| United Healthcare | Charter | $339.00 | ↓ -46% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $339.00 | ↓ -46% |
| Anthem | Blue Preferred | $357.00 | ↓ -43% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $369.00 | ↓ -41% |
| Health EOS Plus | Commercial | $378.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Health Payment Systems | Commercial | $400.00 | ↓ -37% |
| Trilogy | Commercial | $410.00 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | PPO-GPPO | $460.00 | ↓ -27% |
| HealthPartners | Broad | $472.50 | ↓ -25% |
| Health EOS | PPO | $504.00 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | PPO | $520.38 | ↓ -17% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $530.46 | ↓ -16% |
| Cigna | PPO | $532.98 | ↓ -15% |
| Anthem | PPO | $535.50 | ↓ -15% |
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Ankle X-ray 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 | $170.66 | $13.80 – $188.56 |
| Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Ozaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) | Mequon | $170.66 | $13.80 – $188.56 |
| UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital | Madison | $601.04 | $7.77 – $234.40 |
| SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Baraboo | Baraboo | $291.50 | $63.40 – $241.51 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Janesville | Janesville | $387.75 | $65.74 – $173.34 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison | Madison | $351.45 | $63.40 – $181.84 |
| SSM Health Monroe Hospital | Monroe | $256.85 | $58.60 – $84.53 |
| SSM Health Ripon Community Hospital | Ripon | $304.15 | $74.37 – $74.37 |