Chest X-ray at Aurora West Allis Medical Center
8901 W Lincoln Ave, West Allis, WI · Aurorahealthcare · · NPI 1407801640
$240.00
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.
$480.00
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 $460.00 with Cigna — 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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| Aetna | HMO | $200.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Aurora Caregiver | Commercial | $240.00 | ↑ +0% |
| Quartz One | Commercial | $245.00 | ↑ +2% |
| Common Ground | Exchange | $249.00 | ↑ +4% |
| Common Ground | Envision | $249.00 | ↑ +4% |
| Common Ground | Employee Trust Fund | $249.00 | ↑ +4% |
| Everpointe Elite | Commercial | $259.00 | ↑ +8% |
| HealthPartners | Employee Trust Fund | $266.00 | ↑ +11% |
| Anthem | Blue Priority | $275.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Health EOS Plus | Commercial | $288.00 | ↑ +20% |
| Quartz Group | Commercial | $290.00 | ↑ +21% |
| HS Technology | Commercial | $293.00 | ↑ +22% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Aurora Featured | $299.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Molina Exchange | Commercial | $308.00 | ↑ +28% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Statewide | $315.00 | ↑ +31% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Arise | $315.00 | ↑ +31% |
| Centivo | Commercial | $328.00 | ↑ +37% |
| HealthPartners | Robin | $330.00 | ↑ +38% |
| United Healthcare | Exchange | $336.00 | ↑ +40% |
| United Healthcare | Charter | $339.00 | ↑ +41% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $339.00 | ↑ +41% |
| Anthem | Blue Preferred | $357.00 | ↑ +49% |
| HealthPartners | Broad | $360.00 | ↑ +50% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $369.00 | ↑ +54% |
| Health EOS | PPO | $384.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Aetna | PPO | $396.48 | ↑ +65% |
| Health Payment Systems | Commercial | $400.00 | ↑ +67% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $404.16 | ↑ +68% |
| Cigna | PPO | $406.08 | ↑ +69% |
| Anthem | PPO | $408.00 | ↑ +70% |
| Trilogy | Commercial | $410.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna | PPO-GPPO | $460.00 | ↑ +92% |
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Chest 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 | $137.27 | $17.24 – $188.56 |
| Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Ozaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) | Mequon | $137.27 | $17.24 – $188.56 |
| UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital | Madison | $527.92 | $9.70 – $205.89 |
| SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Baraboo | Baraboo | $345.95 | $63.40 – $210.18 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Janesville | Janesville | $367.40 | $65.74 – $150.85 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison | Madison | $266.20 | $63.40 – $158.27 |
| SSM Health Monroe Hospital | Monroe | $106.70 | $51.83 – $84.53 |
| SSM Health Ripon Community Hospital | Ripon | $261.25 | $64.74 – $64.74 |