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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 5.0× price range across 19 Colorado hospitals. Open in the explorer → — filter by insurer or region, map it, or compare hospitals side by side.

How to read “% of Medicare” Medicare’s payment is a hospital-specific benchmark built from CMS files — adjusted for local wages and case complexity, and roughly pegged to the cost of care. A commercial rate at 300% means a private plan pays about triple that benchmark for the same care at the same hospital. The gap is negotiation, not quality. Full methodology →
Median commercial negotiated rate Medicare benchmark
$42,747
$84,234
$84,234
$100,088
$102,941

The part you don’t feel

Southwest Medical Center $125,924vsVia Christi Hospital Wichita St Teresa $25,091 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Southwest Medical Center
Via Christi Hospital Wichita St Teresa
$100,834you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Southwest Medical Center
Via Christi Hospital Wichita St Teresa
$20,167$80,667 invisible to you
Out-of-pocket max reacheda bad year, or a big surgery
Southwest Medical Center
Via Christi Hospital Wichita St Teresa
$0the market goes blind

The gap is $100,834 in every row. The only thing that changes is how much of it reaches the person choosing. Nobody hid the price — the deductible structure hides the difference, and a difference nobody feels is a difference nobody shops. Illustration uses a 20% coinsurance plan with no separate facility or professional bill; your own plan governs.

Detail (click headers to sort, or “why” for cost vs price)

HospitalCommercial medianMedicare% of MedicareEst. cost*Plan rows
Wesley Medical Center⚠ data flag$19,789$69,13529%7
Ascension Via Christi Hospitals Wichita.⚠ data flag$25,091$85,17129%1
Via Christi Hospital Wichita St Teresa$25,0911
Stormont Vail Health Flint Hills$39,6285
Kansas Heart Hospital$42,747$51,7579
Centura St. Catherine-Dodge City$54,5882
St. Catherine Hospital - Garden City$55,7542
Salina Regional Health Center$60,860$46,0422
Kansas Spine & Specialty Hospital$67,7832
Stormont Vail Hospital$78,1195
Saint John Hospital$84,23413
Hays Medical Center$84,2341
Russell Regional Hospital$86,7611
Kansas City Orthopaedic Institute$88,0288
Providence Medical Center$89,36114
Overland Park Reg Med Ctr$100,08810
Menorah Medical Center$100,08810
Susan B Allen Memorial Hospital$102,8321
Labette Health$102,9413
Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital$113,1261
Southwest Medical Center$125,9243

*Cost estimates use hospital-level cost-to-charge ratios from federal cost reports and are approximate; ~ marks categories (imaging, labs) where they are least precise. "Plan rows" is how many distinct plan rates the hospital published; medians over more rows are sturdier.
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Rexroad Analytics · Data: hospital machine-readable files (45 CFR 180, schema v3.0) retrieved August 21–22, 2026; Medicare benchmarks from CMS claims data and fee schedules; cost estimates from FY2026 CMS cost-report ratios, labeled as estimates. Not medical, legal, or benefits advice. Full methodology → · The American Healthcare Conundrum →