Culture typing nucleic acid probe amplified per culture/isolate 6 or more targets at Aurora West Allis Medical Center
8901 W Lincoln Ave, West Allis, WI · Aurorahealthcare · · NPI 1407801640
$392.50
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.
$785.00
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.
$174.45 with United Healthcare vs $743.58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare | Charter | $174.45 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $174.45 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare | Exchange | $174.45 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $174.45 | ↓ -56% |
| Aurora Caregiver | Commercial | $218.06 | ↓ -44% |
| Anthem | Blue Priority | $218.06 | ↓ -44% |
| Anthem | Blue Preferred | $261.67 | ↓ -33% |
| Everpointe Elite | Commercial | $392.50 | ↑ +0% |
| Common Ground | Employee Trust Fund | $457.93 | ↑ +17% |
| Common Ground | Exchange | $457.93 | ↑ +17% |
| Health EOS Plus | Commercial | $471.00 | ↑ +20% |
| Centivo | Commercial | $476.68 | ↑ +21% |
| Common Ground | Envision | $476.68 | ↑ +21% |
| Aetna | HMO | $486.27 | ↑ +24% |
| Quartz One | Commercial | $545.15 | ↑ +39% |
| Health Payment Systems | Commercial | $545.15 | ↑ +39% |
| Trilogy | Commercial | $549.50 | ↑ +40% |
| HealthPartners | Employee Trust Fund | $578.34 | ↑ +47% |
| HealthPartners | Broad | $588.75 | ↑ +50% |
| Molina Exchange | Commercial | $601.85 | ↑ +53% |
| HS Technology | Commercial | $613.62 | ↑ +56% |
| Health EOS | PPO | $628.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Quartz Group | Commercial | $632.37 | ↑ +61% |
| Cigna | PPO-GPPO | $636.48 | ↑ +62% |
| Aetna | PPO | $648.41 | ↑ +65% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $660.97 | ↑ +68% |
| Cigna | PPO | $664.11 | ↑ +69% |
| Anthem | PPO | $667.25 | ↑ +70% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Aurora Featured | $706.51 | ↑ +80% |
| HealthPartners | Robin | $740.29 | ↑ +89% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Arise | $743.58 | ↑ +89% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Statewide | $743.58 | ↑ +89% |
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Culture typing nucleic acid probe amplified per culture/isolate 6 or more targets at other Wisconsin hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital | Madison | $616.68 | $130.84 – $277.50 |
| SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Baraboo | Baraboo | $344.30 | $163.54 – $1,591.05 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Janesville | Janesville | $430.10 | $163.54 – $1,271.80 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison | Madison | $290.40 | $163.54 – $1,302.95 |
| SSM Health Monroe Hospital | Monroe | $388.85 | $218.06 – $381.61 |
| SSM Health Ripon Community Hospital | Ripon | $486.75 | $218.06 – $381.61 |
| SSM Health St. Agnes Hospital - Fond du Lac | Fond Du Lac | $486.75 | $163.54 – $420.86 |
| SSM Health Waupun Memorial Hospital | Waupun | $486.75 | $218.06 – $381.61 |