Hip and femur procedures except major joint, with CCMS-DRG 481Orthopedics

Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 9.9× price range across 25 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
$13,336
$19,249
$20,164
$20,262
$22,267

The part you don’t feel

Saint Luke'S South Hospital $83,173vsWilliam Newton Hospital $8,387 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Saint Luke'S South Hospital
William Newton Hospital
$74,786you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Saint Luke'S South Hospital
William Newton Hospital
$14,957$59,829 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 $74,786 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$8,387$13,87660%2
Stormont Vail Health Flint Hills$9,477$13,87668%5
Wesley Medical Center$13,336$13,61298%1
Morris County Hospital$14,662$13,876106%3
Mercy Specialty Hospital Southeast Kansas$15,939$13,876115%$26,16610
Kansas Spine & Specialty Hospital$15,974$13,876115%2
Anderson County Hospital$16,471$13,876119%8
Stormont Vail Hospital$18,683$12,240153%5
Kansas City Orthopaedic Institute$18,870$13,876136%8
Saint John Hospital$19,249$13,876139%13
Salina Regional Health Center$19,368$13,773141%$20,2302
Amberwell Atchison$20,164$13,876145%3
Hays Medical Center$20,262$16,698121%1
Russell Regional Hospital$20,667$13,876149%1
Providence Medical Center$20,963$13,876151%14
Susan B Allen Memorial Hospital$22,108$13,876159%1
Labette Health$22,267$16,172138%4
Centura St. Catherine-Dodge City$24,297$13,876175%1
St. Catherine Hospital - Garden City$24,852$20,948119%1
Mercy Hospital Pittsburg$25,558$13,876184%$25,7154
Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital$26,947$13,876194%1
Southwest Medical Center$26,960$13,876194%3
Overland Park Reg Med Ctr$30,506$13,670223%4
Menorah Medical Center$35,906$13,380268%4
Saint Luke'S South Hospital$83,173$11,743708%$13,6421

*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 →