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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 3.9× price range across 35 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
$4,909
$7,051
$7,251
$7,916
$7,916
$10,923
$11,534

The part you don’t feel

Saint Luke'S South Hospital $18,795vsRooks County Health Center $4,861 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Saint Luke'S South Hospital
Rooks County Health Center
$13,934you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Saint Luke'S South Hospital
Rooks County Health Center
$2,787$11,147 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 $13,934 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
Summit Surgical⚠ data flag$3,536$6,14258%$26,8112
Rooks County Health Center$4,861$6,14279%4
William Newton Hospital$4,861$6,14279%2
Mcpherson Hospital$4,909$6,14280%$9,4984
Kansas Spine & Specialty Hospital$5,378$6,14288%2
Stormont Vail Health Flint Hills$5,500$6,14290%5
Great Plains Of Sabetha$5,674$6,14292%3
Clara Barton Hospital$5,972$6,14297%1
Lindsborg Community Hospital$5,972$6,14297%1
Salina Regional Health Center$6,114$6,021102%$9,1802
Hiawatha Community Hospital$6,408$6,142104%4
Morris County Hospital$6,729$6,142110%3
Memorial Hospital$7,051$6,142115%2
Amberwell Atchison$7,251$6,142118%4
Anderson County Hospital$7,724$6,142126%6
Saint John Hospital$7,916$6,142129%13
Hays Medical Center$7,916$6,142129%1
Russell Regional Hospital$8,153$6,142133%1
Nemaha Valley Community Hospital$8,373$6,142136%1
Community Memorial Healthcare.$8,373$6,142136%1
Kansas City Orthopaedic Institute$8,777$6,142143%8
Wesley Medical Center$9,404$6,147153%4
Centura St. Catherine-Dodge City$9,585$6,142156%1
St. Catherine Hospital - Garden City$9,804$6,142160%1
Mercy Hospital Pittsburg$10,082$6,142164%$6,0484
Susan B Allen Memorial Hospital$10,269$6,142167%1
Mercy Hospital Columbus$10,373$6,142169%4
Providence Medical Center$10,419$6,142170%14
Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital$10,631$6,142173%1
Stormont Vail Hospital$10,842$5,304204%5
Labette Health$10,923$6,142178%4
Girard Medical Center$11,534$6,142188%1
Southwest Medical Center$12,374$6,142201%3
Overland Park Reg Med Ctr$13,560$6,065224%5
Menorah Medical Center$15,673$5,445288%5
Saint Luke'S South Hospital$18,795$4,493418%$9,75419

*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 →