Hemoglobin plasma at Aurora West Allis Medical Center
8901 W Lincoln Ave, West Allis, WI · Aurorahealthcare · · NPI 1407801640
$60.00
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.
$120.00
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.
$5.85 with United Healthcare vs $102.00 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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| United Healthcare | HMO | $5.85 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | Exchange | $5.85 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | Charter | $5.85 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | Nexus | $5.85 | ↓ -90% |
| Aurora Caregiver | Commercial | $7.31 | ↓ -88% |
| Anthem | Blue Priority | $7.31 | ↓ -88% |
| Anthem | Blue Preferred | $8.77 | ↓ -85% |
| Everpointe Elite | Commercial | $10.28 | ↓ -83% |
| Common Ground | Employee Trust Fund | $15.35 | ↓ -74% |
| Common Ground | Exchange | $15.35 | ↓ -74% |
| Centivo | Commercial | $15.98 | ↓ -73% |
| Common Ground | Envision | $15.98 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | HMO | $16.30 | ↓ -73% |
| Quartz One | Commercial | $18.28 | ↓ -70% |
| Health Payment Systems | Commercial | $18.28 | ↓ -70% |
| HealthPartners | Employee Trust Fund | $19.38 | ↓ -68% |
| Molina Exchange | Commercial | $20.18 | ↓ -66% |
| HS Technology | Commercial | $20.57 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | PPO-GPPO | $21.03 | ↓ -65% |
| Quartz Group | Commercial | $21.20 | ↓ -65% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Aurora Featured | $23.68 | ↓ -61% |
| HealthPartners | Robin | $24.81 | ↓ -59% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Statewide | $24.93 | ↓ -58% |
| Wisconsin Physician Service | Arise | $24.93 | ↓ -58% |
| Trilogy | Commercial | $25.66 | ↓ -57% |
| Health EOS Plus | Commercial | $72.00 | ↑ +20% |
| HealthPartners | Broad | $90.00 | ↑ +50% |
| Health EOS | PPO | $96.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Aetna | PPO | $99.12 | ↑ +65% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $101.04 | ↑ +68% |
| Cigna | PPO | $101.52 | ↑ +69% |
| Anthem | PPO | $102.00 | ↑ +70% |
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Hemoglobin plasma 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 | $31.27 | $7.31 – $28.26 |
| Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital - Ozaukee Campus (Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc.) | Mequon | $31.27 | $7.31 – $28.26 |
| UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital | Madison | $20.48 | $4.39 – $9.34 |
| SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Baraboo | Baraboo | $22.55 | $5.48 – $34.57 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Janesville | Janesville | $27.50 | $5.48 – $27.67 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison | Madison | $18.70 | $5.48 – $28.30 |
| SSM Health Monroe Hospital | Monroe | $39.60 | $7.31 – $12.79 |
| SSM Health Ripon Community Hospital | Ripon | $13.20 | $7.04 – $12.79 |