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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 14.3× price range across 21 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
$13,214
$13,910
$15,668
$16,179

The part you don’t feel

Saint Luke'S South Hospital $83,173vsStormont Vail Health Flint Hills $5,815 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Saint Luke'S South Hospital
Stormont Vail Health Flint Hills
$77,358you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Saint Luke'S South Hospital
Stormont Vail Health Flint Hills
$15,472$61,886 invisible to you
Out-of-pocket max reacheda bad year, or a big surgery
Saint Luke'S South Hospital
Stormont Vail Health Flint Hills
$0the market goes blind

The gap is $77,358 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$5,815$8,27270%5
Stormont Vail Hospital$11,464$8,272139%5
Saint John Hospital$13,214$8,272160%13
Kansas City Orthopaedic Institute$13,557$8,272164%8
Hays Medical Center$13,910$8,272168%1
Kansas Spine & Specialty Hospital$13,995$8,272169%2
Russell Regional Hospital$14,327$8,272173%1
Kansas Surgery & Recovery Center$14,391$8,272174%$10,0744
Providence Medical Center$15,537$8,272188%14
Susan B Allen Memorial Hospital$15,575$8,272188%1
Wesley Medical Center$15,668$8,272189%8
Labette Health$16,179$8,272196%3
Ascension Via Christi Hospitals Wichita.$16,604$8,272201%4
Centura St. Catherine-Dodge City$18,069$8,272218%2
St. Catherine Hospital - Garden City$18,261$8,272221%2
Via Christi Hospital Wichita St Teresa$18,734$8,272226%3
Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital$18,987$8,272230%2
Southwest Medical Center$19,416$8,272235%3
Overland Park Reg Med Ctr$22,662$8,272274%5
Menorah Medical Center$25,858$8,272313%5
Saint Luke'S South Hospital$83,173$8,2721005%$9,1941

*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 →