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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 15.0× price range across 27 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
$10,261
$10,524
$11,164
$11,164
$14,650
$16,267

The part you don’t feel

Saint Luke'S South Hospital $83,173vsWilliam Newton Hospital $5,528 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Saint Luke'S South Hospital
William Newton Hospital
$77,645you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Saint Luke'S South Hospital
William Newton Hospital
$15,529$62,116 invisible to you
Out-of-pocket max reacheda bad year, or a big surgery
Saint Luke'S South Hospital
William Newton Hospital
$0the market goes blind

The gap is $77,645 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$5,528$8,97762%2
Stormont Vail Health Flint Hills$6,239$8,97770%5
Kansas Spine & Specialty Hospital$7,933$8,97788%2
Wesley Medical Center$8,022$8,90190%1
Morris County Hospital$9,561$8,977107%3
Amberwell Atchison$10,261$8,977114%4
Clara Barton Hospital$10,524$8,977117%1
Salina Regional Health Center$10,671$8,977119%$12,3342
Anderson County Hospital$10,974$8,977122%6
Saint John Hospital$11,164$8,977124%13
Hays Medical Center$11,164$8,977124%1
Russell Regional Hospital$11,499$8,977128%1
Community Memorial Healthcare.$11,809$8,977132%1
Kansas City Orthopaedic Institute$11,962$8,977133%8
Stormont Vail Hospital$12,299$7,550163%5
Centura St. Catherine-Dodge City$13,518$8,977151%1
St. Catherine Hospital - Garden City$13,827$8,977154%1
Susan B Allen Memorial Hospital$14,039$8,977156%1
Providence Medical Center$14,174$8,977158%14
Mercy Hospital Pittsburg$14,220$8,977158%$15,0284
Labette Health$14,650$8,977163%3
Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital$14,993$8,977167%1
Girard Medical Center$16,267$8,977181%1
Southwest Medical Center$17,581$8,977196%3
Overland Park Reg Med Ctr$19,266$8,977215%4
Menorah Medical Center$22,841$8,977254%4
Saint Luke'S South Hospital$83,173$8,977927%$11,0681

*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 →