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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 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
$3,626
$7,222
$7,929
$7,929
$10,898
$13,538
$13,936

The part you don’t feel

Menorah Medical Center $13,936vsWilliam Newton Hospital $3,590 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Menorah Medical Center
William Newton Hospital
$10,346you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Menorah Medical Center
William Newton Hospital
$2,069$8,277 invisible to you
Out-of-pocket max reacheda bad year, or a big surgery
Menorah Medical Center
William Newton Hospital
$0the market goes blind

The gap is $10,346 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$3,5902
Mcpherson Hospital$3,626$15,1214
Stormont Vail Health Flint Hills$4,0445
Hospital #1 Of Rice County$4,3271
Kansas Spine & Specialty Hospital$5,4593
Hiawatha Community Hospital$5,7014
Morris County Hospital$6,7125
Great Plains Of Sabetha$7,1353
Amberwell Atchison$7,2226
Centura St. Catherine-Dodge City$7,5462
Salina Regional Health Center$7,579$7,1112
Saint John Hospital$7,92913
Hays Medical Center$7,9291
Stormont Vail Hospital$7,9725
Kansas City Orthopaedic Institute$7,9928
Nemaha Valley Community Hospital$8,0612
Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital$8,0692
Wamego Health Center$8,0791
Russell Regional Hospital$8,1671
Community Memorial Healthcare.$8,1671
Ascension Via Christi Hospital Manhattan$8,2682
Wesley Medical Center$8,7828
St. Catherine Hospital - Garden City$9,5633
Providence Medical Center$9,57815
Ascension Via Christi Hospitals Wichita.$9,6213
Via Christi Hospital Wichita St Teresa$9,6213
Susan B Allen Memorial Hospital$9,6401
Anderson County Hospital$9,7972
Mercy Hospital Pittsburg$9,834$14,3194
Labette Health$10,8984
Southwest Medical Center$12,3423
Overland Park Reg Med Ctr$13,15517
Wilson Medical Center$13,5383
Menorah Medical Center$13,93617

*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 →