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8901 W Lincoln Ave, West Allis, WI · Aurorahealthcare · · NPI 1407801640
$35.00
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.
$70.00
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.
$42.00 with Health EOS Plus vs $378.00 with Wisconsin Physician Service — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health EOS Plus | Commercial | $42.00 | ↑ +20% |
| HealthPartners | Broad | $52.50 | ↑ +50% |
| Health EOS | PPO | $56.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Aetna | PPO | $57.82 | ↑ +65% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $58.94 | ↑ +68% |
| Cigna | PPO | $59.22 | ↑ +69% |
| Anthem | PPO | $59.50 | ↑ +70% |
| Aetna | HMO | $222.00 | ↑ +534% |
| Everpointe Elite | Commercial | $259.00 | ↑ +640% |
| Aurora Caregiver | Commercial | $260.00 | ↑ +643% |
| Molina Exchange | Commercial | $266.00 | ↑ +660% |
| Quartz One | Commercial | $270.00 | ↑ +671% |
| Centivo | Commercial | $274.00 | ↑ +683% |
| Anthem | Blue Priority | $275.00 | ↑ +686% |
| United Healthcare | Exchange | $275.00 | ↑ +686% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $277.00 | ↑ +691% |
| United Healthcare | Charter | $277.00 | ↑ +691% |
| Common Ground | Employee Trust Fund | $281.00 | ↑ +703% |
| Common Ground | Exchange | $281.00 | ↑ +703% |
| Common Ground | Envision | $281.00 | ↑ +703% |
| HealthPartners | Employee Trust Fund | $282.00 | ↑ +706% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $302.00 | ↑ +763% |
| HS Technology | Commercial | $304.00 | ↑ +769% |
| Quartz Group | Commercial | $320.00 | ↑ +814% |
| Cigna | PPO-GPPO | $320.00 | ↑ +814% |
| Health Payment Systems | Commercial | $325.00 | ↑ +829% |
| Trilogy | Commercial | $328.00 | ↑ +837% |
| HealthPartners | Robin | $350.00 | ↑ +900% |
| Anthem | Blue Preferred | $357.00 | ↑ +920% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Aurora Featured | $359.00 | ↑ +926% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Arise | $378.00 | ↑ +980% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Statewide | $378.00 | ↑ +980% |
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Appl modality 1/> areas paraffin bath 97018 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 | $69.96 | $5.76 – $34.85 |
| Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Ozaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) | Mequon | $69.96 | $5.76 – $34.85 |
| UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital | Madison | $50.41 | $5.71 – $22.68 |
| SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Baraboo | Baraboo | $102.85 | $4.22 – $5.63 |
| SSM Health Monroe Hospital | Monroe | $75.35 | $5.63 – $5.63 |
| SSM Health Ripon Community Hospital | Ripon | $38.50 | not published |
| SSM Health St. Agnes Hospital - Fond du Lac | Fond Du Lac | $38.50 | $4.22 – $10.87 |
| SSM Health Waupun Memorial Hospital | Waupun | $38.50 | not published |