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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 16.3× price range across 24 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
$1,026

The part you don’t feel

Carlsbad Medical Center $12,800vsCibola General Hospital $786 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Carlsbad Medical Center
Cibola General Hospital
$12,014you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Carlsbad Medical Center
Cibola General Hospital
$2,403$9,611 invisible to you
Out-of-pocket max reacheda bad year, or a big surgery
Carlsbad Medical Center
Cibola General Hospital
$0the market goes blind

The gap is $12,014 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
Sierra Vista Hospital⚠ data flag$283$92731%7
Artesia General Hospital⚠ data flag$353$89839%$17918
Cibola General Hospital$786$92785%14
Christus Southern New Mexico$953$898106%8
Unm Hospital$1,026$898114%$8582
Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital$1,125$900125%1
Lovelace Women'S Hospital$1,450$898161%$2875
Lovelace Westside Hospital$1,450$898161%$3225
Union County General Hospital$2,001$927216%3
Lovelace Medical Center$2,032$898226%$5085
Presbyterian Hospital$2,276$898253%4
Rehoboth Mckinley Christian Health Care Services$2,426$927262%13
Presbyterian Espanola Hospital$2,430$915266%3
San Juan Regional Medical Center Inc ● actual$2,989$904331%$92320
Plains Regional Medical Center$3,594$898400%3
Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center$3,594$947379%3
Socorro General Hospital$3,594$927388%2
Dr Dan C Trigg Memorial Hospital$3,594$927388%2
Lincoln County Medical Center$3,594$927388%2
Lovelace Regional Hospital - Roswell$3,858$898430%$1,2058
Memorial Medical Center$4,068$898453%1
Holy Cross Hospital A Div Of Taos Health Systems$4,159$927449%1
Los Alamos Medical Center$4,752$928512%1
Mountain View Regional Medical Center$6,763$898753%$2,10120
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center$7,993$898890%$1,49621
Carlsbad Medical Center$12,800$8981426%$3,17624

*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 →