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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 8.8× price range across 17 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
$6,447

The part you don’t feel

Eastern New Mexico Medical Center $28,909vsChristus Southern New Mexico $3,300 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center
Christus Southern New Mexico
$25,609you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center
Christus Southern New Mexico
$5,122$20,487 invisible to you
Out-of-pocket max reacheda bad year, or a big surgery
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center
Christus Southern New Mexico
$0the market goes blind

The gap is $25,609 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
Artesia General Hospital⚠ data flag$1,002$3,23931%$50918
Cibola General Hospital⚠ data flag$1,058$3,34332%14
Rehoboth Mckinley Christian Health Care Services⚠ data flag$1,389$3,34342%13
Christus Southern New Mexico$3,300$3,239102%8
Christus St Vincent Regional Medical Center$3,424$3,418100%21
Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital$4,057$3,246125%1
Holy Cross Hospital A Div Of Taos Health Systems$6,389$3,343191%1
Unm Hospital$6,447$3,239199%$1,6291
Presbyterian Hospital$8,301$3,239256%4
Presbyterian Espanola Hospital$8,862$3,299269%3
Plains Regional Medical Center$13,110$3,239405%3
Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center$13,110$3,418384%3
Socorro General Hospital$13,110$3,343392%2
Dr Dan C Trigg Memorial Hospital$13,110$3,343392%2
Lincoln County Medical Center$13,110$3,343392%2
Memorial Medical Center$13,916$3,239430%1
Los Alamos Medical Center$16,255$3,349485%1
Carlsbad Medical Center$22,330$3,239689%$5,72224
Mountain View Regional Medical Center$24,974$3,239771%$7,75920
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center$28,909$3,239892%$5,41121

*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 →