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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 3.1× price range across 9 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
$28,622

The part you don’t feel

Anderson County Hospital $79,729vsMorris County Hospital $25,605 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Anderson County Hospital
Morris County Hospital
$54,124you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Anderson County Hospital
Morris County Hospital
$10,825$43,299 invisible to you
Out-of-pocket max reacheda bad year, or a big surgery
Anderson County Hospital
Morris County Hospital
$0the market goes blind

The gap is $54,124 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
Morris County Hospital$25,605$25,413101%3
Providence Medical Center$28,192$25,413111%2
Saint John Hospital$28,622$25,413113%5
Kansas City Orthopaedic Institute$34,687$21,851159%1
Salina Regional Health Center$34,788$25,631136%$30,1682
Russell Regional Hospital$37,122$25,413146%1
Centura St. Catherine-Dodge City$43,641$25,413172%1
Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital$48,402$25,413190%1
Anderson County Hospital$79,729$25,413314%1

*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 →