Dextrose 5 % IV bolus at Aurora West Allis Medical Center
8901 W Lincoln Ave, West Allis, WI · Aurorahealthcare · · NPI 1407801640
$73.78
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.
$147.55
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.
$3.64 with Anthem vs $125.42 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 |
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| Anthem | Blue Priority | $3.64 | ↓ -95% |
| Aurora Caregiver | Commercial | $3.65 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | HMO | $3.71 | ↓ -95% |
| HealthPartners | Employee Trust Fund | $4.20 | ↓ -94% |
| Anthem | Blue Preferred | $4.37 | ↓ -94% |
| HealthPartners | Robin | $4.39 | ↓ -94% |
| Common Ground | Envision | $4.72 | ↓ -94% |
| Centivo | Commercial | $4.72 | ↓ -94% |
| Quartz One | Commercial | $4.86 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Payment Systems | Commercial | $4.86 | ↓ -93% |
| Common Ground | Exchange | $5.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Common Ground | Employee Trust Fund | $5.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | PPO-GPPO | $5.40 | ↓ -93% |
| Quartz Group | Commercial | $5.58 | ↓ -92% |
| Everpointe Elite | Commercial | $7.29 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina Exchange | Commercial | $8.78 | ↓ -88% |
| HS Technology | Commercial | $73.78 | ↑ +0% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Aurora Featured | $76.73 | ↑ +4% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Statewide | $81.15 | ↑ +10% |
| Trilogy | Commercial | $81.15 | ↑ +10% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Arise | $81.15 | ↑ +10% |
| United Healthcare | Charter | $87.64 | ↑ +19% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $87.64 | ↑ +19% |
| United Healthcare | Exchange | $87.64 | ↑ +19% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $87.64 | ↑ +19% |
| Health EOS Plus | Commercial | $88.53 | ↑ +20% |
| HealthPartners | Broad | $110.66 | ↑ +50% |
| Health EOS | PPO | $118.04 | ↑ +60% |
| Aetna | PPO | $121.88 | ↑ +65% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $124.24 | ↑ +68% |
| Cigna | PPO | $124.83 | ↑ +69% |
| Anthem | PPO | $125.42 | ↑ +70% |
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Dextrose 5 % IV bolus at other Wisconsin hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Ozaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) | Mequon | $4.24 | $3.65 – $7.35 |
| UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital | Madison | $48.00 | $3.04 – $51.00 |
| Aurora Sinai Medical Center of Aurora Health Care Metro | Milwaukee | $107.80 | $3.64 – $8.78 |
| Aurora Medical Center Summit | Summit | $71.74 | $3.64 – $8.78 |
| Aurora Baycare Medical Center | Green Bay | $64.03 | $3.64 – $8.78 |
| Aurora Medical Center Manitowoc | Two Rivers | $44.84 | $3.64 – $8.78 |
| Aurora Medical Center Burlington | Burlington | $65.55 | $3.64 – $8.78 |
| Aurora Medical Center Fond du Lac | Fond Du Lac | $75.36 | $3.64 – $8.78 |