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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 3.6× price range across 22 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
$19,403
$21,152
$21,303
$23,142
$25,937

The part you don’t feel

Menorah Medical Center $40,827vsStormont Vail Health Flint Hills $11,405 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Menorah Medical Center
Stormont Vail Health Flint Hills
$29,422you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Menorah Medical Center
Stormont Vail Health Flint Hills
$5,884$23,538 invisible to you
Out-of-pocket max reacheda bad year, or a big surgery
Menorah Medical Center
Stormont Vail Health Flint Hills
$0the market goes blind

The gap is $29,422 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
Stormont Vail Health Flint Hills$11,405$16,34370%5
Salina Regional Health Center$15,201$16,34393%$20,1732
Kansas Spine & Specialty Hospital$16,190$13,647119%2
Morris County Hospital$17,089$16,343105%3
Mercy Specialty Hospital Southeast Kansas$18,578$16,343114%$15,90610
Summit Surgical$19,403$16,343119%$35,9872
Anderson County Hospital$20,733$16,343127%4
Saint John Hospital$21,152$16,343129%13
Hays Medical Center$21,303$16,343130%1
Russell Regional Hospital$21,942$16,343134%1
Kansas City Orthopaedic Institute$21,972$16,343134%8
Stormont Vail Hospital$22,483$16,343138%5
Wesley Medical Center$23,142$16,343142%8
Providence Medical Center$24,048$16,343147%14
Susan B Allen Memorial Hospital$25,225$16,343154%1
Centura St. Catherine-Dodge City$25,796$16,343158%1
Labette Health$25,937$16,343159%4
St. Catherine Hospital - Garden City$26,386$16,343161%1
Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital$28,610$16,343175%1
Southwest Medical Center$31,424$16,343192%3
Overland Park Reg Med Ctr$35,574$16,343218%6
Menorah Medical Center$40,827$16,343250%6

*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 →