Echo transthoracic at Aurora West Allis Medical Center
8901 W Lincoln Ave, West Allis, WI · Aurorahealthcare · · NPI 1407801640
$1,500.00
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.
$3,000.00
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.
$1,340.00 with HS Technology vs $2,958.00 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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| HS Technology | Commercial | $1,340.00 | ↓ -11% |
| Everpointe Elite | Commercial | $1,340.00 | ↓ -11% |
| Aetna | HMO | $1,431.12 | ↓ -5% |
| Quartz One | Commercial | $1,474.00 | ↓ -2% |
| Common Ground | Envision | $1,608.00 | ↑ +7% |
| Common Ground | Employee Trust Fund | $1,608.00 | ↑ +7% |
| Common Ground | Exchange | $1,608.00 | ↑ +7% |
| Quartz Group | Commercial | $1,608.00 | ↑ +7% |
| HealthPartners | Employee Trust Fund | $1,608.00 | ↑ +7% |
| Health EOS Plus | Commercial | $1,608.00 | ↑ +7% |
| Aurora Caregiver | Commercial | $1,608.00 | ↑ +7% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Aurora Featured | $1,661.60 | ↑ +11% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Statewide | $1,742.00 | ↑ +16% |
| Health Payment Systems | Commercial | $1,742.00 | ↑ +16% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Arise | $1,742.00 | ↑ +16% |
| Trilogy | Commercial | $1,876.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Centivo | Commercial | $2,010.00 | ↑ +34% |
| HealthPartners | Robin | $2,010.00 | ↑ +34% |
| Cigna | PPO-GPPO | $2,010.00 | ↑ +34% |
| HealthPartners | Broad | $2,010.00 | ↑ +34% |
| Molina Exchange | Commercial | $2,069.00 | ↑ +38% |
| Health EOS | PPO | $2,144.00 | ↑ +43% |
| United Healthcare | Exchange | $2,201.00 | ↑ +47% |
| Aetna | PPO | $2,213.68 | ↑ +48% |
| United Healthcare | Charter | $2,217.00 | ↑ +48% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $2,217.00 | ↑ +48% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $2,256.56 | ↑ +50% |
| Cigna | PPO | $2,267.28 | ↑ +51% |
| Anthem | PPO | $2,278.00 | ↑ +52% |
| Anthem | Blue Priority | $2,295.00 | ↑ +53% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $2,415.00 | ↑ +61% |
| Anthem | Blue Preferred | $2,958.00 | ↑ +97% |
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Echo transthoracic 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 | $1,853.94 | $100.79 – $1,174.27 |
| Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Ozaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) | Mequon | $1,853.94 | $100.79 – $1,174.27 |
| UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital | Madison | $2,441.30 | $56.72 – $952.11 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Janesville | Janesville | $959.20 | $412.78 – $550.38 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison | Madison | $963.05 | $398.06 – $530.75 |
| SSM Health Monroe Hospital | Monroe | $1,822.15 | $530.75 – $530.75 |
| SSM Health Ripon Community Hospital | Ripon | $1,199.00 | not published |
| SSM Health St. Agnes Hospital - Fond du Lac | Fond Du Lac | $1,199.00 | $405.35 – $1,043.10 |