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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 6.0× price range across 34 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
$17,998
$18,894
$21,044
$21,421
$21,718
$22,152
$26,042
$29,075

The part you don’t feel

Saint Luke'S South Hospital $62,513vsRooks County Health Center $10,421 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Saint Luke'S South Hospital
Rooks County Health Center
$52,092you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Saint Luke'S South Hospital
Rooks County Health Center
$10,418$41,674 invisible to you
Out-of-pocket max reacheda bad year, or a big surgery
Saint Luke'S South Hospital
Rooks County Health Center
$0the market goes blind

The gap is $52,092 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
Rooks County Health Center$10,421$13,04580%4
William Newton Hospital$10,421$13,04580%2
Holton Community Hospital$11,434$13,04588%3
Stormont Vail Health Flint Hills$11,773$13,04590%5
Morris County Hospital$13,502$13,045104%3
Hiawatha Community Hospital$15,732$13,045121%4
Anderson County Hospital$15,891$13,045122%6
Kansas Spine & Specialty Hospital$16,271$9,490171%2
Mercy Specialty Hospital Southeast Kansas$17,337$13,045133%$21,6029
Kansas City Orthopaedic Institute$17,410$10,464166%8
Saint John Hospital$17,998$13,045138%13
Kansas Surgery & Recovery Center$18,445$10,261180%$20,3814
Summit Surgical$18,894$9,375202%$13,7762
Providence Medical Center$19,490$11,960163%14
Susan B Allen Memorial Hospital$20,090$13,045154%1
Amberwell Atchison$21,044$13,045161%3
Salina Regional Health Center$21,175$12,238173%$17,5962
Labette Health$21,421$13,045164%4
Clara Barton Hospital$21,718$13,045166%1
Hays Medical Center$22,152$13,045170%1
Nemaha Valley Community Hospital$22,152$13,045170%1
Russell Regional Hospital$22,152$13,045170%1
Community Memorial Healthcare.$22,152$13,045170%1
Stormont Vail Hospital$23,208$9,214252%5
Southwest Medical Center$24,829$15,844157%3
St. Catherine Hospital - Garden City$25,937$13,045199%1
Wesley Medical Center$26,042$12,294212%1
Centura St. Catherine-Dodge City$26,042$13,045200%1
Mercy Hospital Pittsburg$26,674$13,395199%$22,9754
Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital$28,883$13,045221%1
Meade Hospital$29,075$13,045223%1
Overland Park Reg Med Ctr$31,627$11,939265%5
Menorah Medical Center$31,944$12,051265%5
Saint Luke'S South Hospital$62,513$13,045479%$13,3523

*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 →