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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 12.0× price range across 24 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
$12,754
$13,092
$14,566
$15,332
$16,633
$19,118
$19,789

The part you don’t feel

Saint Luke'S South Hospital $83,173vsKansas Heart Hospital $6,931 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Saint Luke'S South Hospital
Kansas Heart Hospital
$76,242you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Saint Luke'S South Hospital
Kansas Heart Hospital
$15,248$60,994 invisible to you
Out-of-pocket max reacheda bad year, or a big surgery
Saint Luke'S South Hospital
Kansas Heart Hospital
$0the market goes blind

The gap is $76,242 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
William Newton Hospital⚠ data flag$5,687$11,21751%2
Mcpherson Hospital⚠ data flag$5,744$11,21751%$13,5864
Stormont Vail Health Flint Hills⚠ data flag$6,434$11,21757%5
Kansas Heart Hospital$6,931$8,85878%$8,9489
Morris County Hospital$11,229$11,217100%3
Kansas Spine & Specialty Hospital$12,551$11,217112%2
Stormont Vail Hospital$12,683$9,108139%5
Memorial Hospital$12,754$11,217114%2
Anderson County Hospital$12,888$11,217115%6
Amberwell Atchison$13,092$11,217117%4
Saint John Hospital$14,566$11,217130%13
Salina Regional Health Center$14,656$11,807124%$14,1382
Kansas City Orthopaedic Institute$14,667$11,217131%8
Hays Medical Center$15,332$12,951118%1
Russell Regional Hospital$15,639$11,217139%1
Providence Medical Center$16,452$10,163162%14
Labette Health$16,633$11,217148%4
Susan B Allen Memorial Hospital$17,489$11,217156%1
Centura St. Catherine-Dodge City$18,385$11,217164%1
St. Catherine Hospital - Garden City$18,805$16,008117%1
Overland Park Reg Med Ctr$19,036$11,217170%10
Menorah Medical Center$19,118$11,217170%10
Mercy Hospital Pittsburg$19,339$11,655166%$9,7414
Wesley Medical Center$19,789$10,620186%7
Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital$20,391$11,217182%1
Southwest Medical Center$20,648$11,217184%3
Saint Luke'S South Hospital$83,173$7,1071170%$14,1731

*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 →