Hospital · CCN 520139
Aurora West Allis Medical Center
8901 W Lincoln Ave, West Allis, WI 53227 · Milwaukee County
Part of Advocate Health · 202 beds · 1
Metropolitan area core: primary flow within an urbanized area of 50,000 and greater
34 admission types 46 outpatient services price file: ok
Billed per dollar paid, all admissions
4.64×
$45.6M billed against $9.8M paid across 959 Medicare discharges; the national figure is 5.03×.
3.1%
of adults in Milwaukee County have medical debt in collections
7.7%
uninsured in the county · state 6.3%
$63K
median household income
4.2×
billed ÷ paid, inpatient, summed over the county's hospitals in the Medicare file (9 in the inpatient or outpatient file)ⓘ
38.6%
obesity in the countyⓘ
13.1%
diagnosed diabetes (PLACES)
6.2%
coronary heart disease (PLACES)
—
median age · — below poverty (ACS)
01 · Admissions
What it billed Medicare, by admission type
Average charge submitted and average total payment per discharge, 2024. Rows under 11 discharges are suppressed by CMS. The last column is the hospital's ratio against its state's for the same admission.
DRG
Admission
Discharges
Charge
Paid
Billed ÷ paid
871
Septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc
138
$65,154
$14,831
4.4× st 3.6×
291
Heart failure and shock with mcc
93
$40,890
$9,147
4.5× st 3.6×
872
Septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours without mcc
49
$43,382
$8,139
5.3× st 3.9×
392
Esophagitis, gastroenteritis and miscellaneous digestive disorders without mcc
39
$32,607
$6,596
4.9× st 4.2×
189
Pulmonary edema and respiratory failure
39
$43,078
$8,664
5.0× st 3.8×
690
Kidney and urinary tract infections without mcc
38
$30,948
$6,081
5.1× st 4.0×
378
Gastrointestinal hemorrhage with cc
35
$42,036
$8,286
5.1× st 4.0×
682
Renal failure with mcc
29
$49,922
$10,870
4.6× st 3.6×
698
Other kidney and urinary tract diagnoses with mcc
29
$44,657
$11,433
3.9× st 3.3×
177
Respiratory infections and inflammations with mcc
29
$66,306
$12,638
5.2× st 3.6×
683
Renal failure with cc
28
$32,484
$7,170
4.5× st 3.7×
603
Cellulitis without mcc
28
$29,630
$7,878
3.8× st 3.7×
689
Kidney and urinary tract infections with mcc
25
$36,553
$8,558
4.3× st 3.7×
312
Syncope and collapse
24
$34,447
$7,143
4.8× st 4.4×
638
Diabetes with cc
24
$31,010
$7,980
3.9× st 4.1×
853
Infectious and parasitic diseases with o.r. procedures with mcc
23
$139,434
$31,841
4.4× st 3.3×
563
Fracture, sprain, strain and dislocation except femur, hip, pelvis and thigh without mcc
22
$34,235
$6,655
5.1× st 4.0×
640
Miscellaneous disorders of nutrition, metabolism, fluids and electrolytes with mcc
20
$51,163
$9,931
5.2× st 3.6×
552
Medical back problems without mcc
20
$35,517
$6,953
5.1× st 4.1×
190
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with mcc
20
$28,170
$8,229
3.4× st 3.8×
193
Simple pneumonia and pleurisy with mcc
20
$49,834
$10,296
4.8× st 3.6×
641
Miscellaneous disorders of nutrition, metabolism, fluids and electrolytes without mcc
18
$26,672
$5,925
4.5× st 3.9×
280
Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive with mcc
17
$36,942
$10,333
3.6× st 3.7×
394
Other digestive system diagnoses with cc
16
$27,484
$8,376
3.3× st 3.8×
470
Major hip and knee joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity without mcc
15
$98,416
$14,780
6.7× st 4.6×
194
Simple pneumonia and pleurisy with cc
15
$33,509
$7,189
4.7× st 3.9×
481
Hip and femur procedures except major joint with cc
15
$89,471
$14,954
6.0× st 4.2×
637
Diabetes with mcc
15
$46,374
$9,972
4.7× st 4.5×
811
Red blood cell disorders with mcc
15
$42,129
$10,732
3.9× st 3.5×
699
Other kidney and urinary tract diagnoses with cc
14
$27,128
$6,930
3.9× st 3.6×
065
Intracranial hemorrhage or cerebral infarction with cc or tpa in 24 hours
13
$46,536
$8,398
5.5× st 4.7×
377
Gastrointestinal hemorrhage with mcc
12
$69,170
$11,425
6.1× st 3.8×
812
Red blood cell disorders without mcc
11
$31,151
$6,818
4.6× st 3.7×
602
Cellulitis with mcc
11
$51,867
$10,859
4.8× st 3.7×
02 · Outpatient
Outpatient services
Comprehensive APCs, Medicare's outpatient payment groups: submitted charge against what Medicare allowed, per service.
APC
Service
Services
Charge
Allowed
Billed ÷ allowed
5373
Level 3 Urology and Related Services
242
$11,520
$1,849
6.2×
8011
Comprehensive Observation Services
223
$20,184
$2,431
8.3×
5072
Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage
100
$9,340
$1,435
6.5×
5115
Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures
85
$74,078
$11,663
6.4×
5372
Level 2 Urology and Related Services
70
$5,125
$621
8.3×
5374
Level 4 Urology and Related Services
65
$25,210
$3,051
8.3×
5361
Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services
52
$45,202
$4,995
9.1×
5375
Level 5 Urology and Related Services
51
$34,806
$4,611
7.5×
5302
Level 2 Upper GI Procedures
47
$15,438
$1,693
9.1×
5431
Level 1 Nerve Procedures
42
$11,235
$1,744
6.4×
5073
Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage
36
$15,648
$2,577
6.1×
5183
Level 3 Vascular Procedures
31
$14,593
$2,853
5.1×
5414
Level 4 Gynecologic Procedures
30
$30,142
$2,837
10.6×
5114
Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures
22
$39,028
$6,482
6.0×
5113
Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures
21
$22,750
$2,921
7.8×
5341
Level 1 Abdominal/Peritoneal/Biliary and Related Procedures
19
$29,041
$3,013
9.6×
5182
Level 2 Vascular Procedures
19
$7,253
$1,450
5.0×
5362
Level 2 Laparoscopy and Related Services
19
$63,046
$9,372
6.7×
5415
Level 5 Gynecologic Procedures
18
$32,961
$4,511
7.3×
5165
Level 5 ENT Procedures
17
$30,591
$5,335
5.7×
5092
Level 2 Breast/Lymphatic Surgery and Related Procedures
16
$42,960
$5,852
7.3×
5091
Level 1 Breast/Lymphatic Surgery and Related Procedures
12
$26,952
$3,461
7.8×
5116
Level 6 Musculoskeletal Procedures
12
$94,466
$15,410
6.1×
5464
Level 4 Neurostimulator and Related Procedures
11
$86,948
$19,797
4.4×
5378
Level 8 Urology and Related Services
—
—
—
—
5471
Implantation of Drug Infusion Device
—
—
—
—
5376
Level 6 Urology and Related Services
—
—
—
—
5463
Level 3 Neurostimulator and Related Procedures
—
—
—
—
5377
Level 7 Urology and Related Services
—
—
—
—
5462
Level 2 Neurostimulator and Related Procedures
—
—
—
—
5461
Level 1 Neurostimulator and Related Procedures
—
—
—
—
5416
Level 6 Gynecologic Procedures
—
—
—
—
5184
Level 4 Vascular Procedures
—
—
—
—
5112
Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures
—
—
—
—
5153
Level 3 Airway Endoscopy
—
—
—
—
5154
Level 4 Airway Endoscopy
—
—
—
—
5155
Level 5 Airway Endoscopy
—
—
—
—
5163
Level 3 ENT Procedures
—
—
—
—
5164
Level 4 ENT Procedures
—
—
—
—
5192
Level 2 Endovascular Procedures
—
—
—
—
5193
Level 3 Endovascular Procedures
—
—
—
—
5194
Level 4 Endovascular Procedures
—
—
—
—
5313
Level 3 Lower GI Procedures
—
—
—
—
5331
Complex GI Procedures
—
—
—
—
5342
Level 2 Abdominal/Peritoneal/Biliary and Related Procedures
—
—
—
—
5094
Level 4 Breast/Lymphatic Surgery and Related Procedures
—
—
—
—
03 · Its own price file
What the hospital's price-transparency file says
Found via /cms-hpt.txt, the file itself ↗ read as csv-tall, last updated 2025-11-21, template 3.0.0, 551,395 rows scanned, 12,089 distinct code–setting items kept. No rule fires against it.
Sources for this hospital
the files read, as fetched — not our copy of them- MUP_INP_RY26_P03_V10_DY24_PrvSvc.CSV · 38.0M bytes · fetched 2026-08-21 · sha256 2ab6da15be4c… · publisher's page · public domain (US federal)
- MUP_OUT_RY26_P04_V10_DY24_Prov_Svc.csv · 28.1M bytes · fetched 2026-08-21 · sha256 f293918edbf6… · publisher's page · public domain (US federal)
- chsp-hospital-linkage-2023.csv · 1.5M bytes · fetched 2026-08-21 · sha256 a86146f10c8d… · publisher's page · public; cite AHRQ Compendium of U.S. Health Systems
- 2020 ZCTA to County relationship file · US Census Bureau · 2020tab20_zcta520_county20_natl.txt · 6.8M bytes · fetched 2026-08-21 · sha256 3ed41278d637… · publisher's page · public domain (US federal)
- Aurora West Allis Medical Center — standard charges file · WI · updated 2025-11-21· csv-tall · 137.2M bytes · fetched 2026-08-23 · sha256 a571699838d3…
Every figure on this page is computed from these files by pipeline/prices/; the same rows are in the API.
Source rows for this hospital as JSON: inpatient · outpatient · price file. CMS, Medicare Inpatient and Outpatient Hospitals by Provider and Service, 2024.