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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 13.2× 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
$1,051

The part you don’t feel

Carlsbad Medical Center $12,561vsChristus Southern New Mexico $953 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Carlsbad Medical Center
Christus Southern New Mexico
$11,607you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Carlsbad Medical Center
Christus Southern New Mexico
$2,321$9,286 invisible to you
Out-of-pocket max reacheda bad year, or a big surgery
Carlsbad Medical Center
Christus Southern New Mexico
$0the market goes blind

The gap is $11,607 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$316$92734%7
Artesia General Hospital⚠ data flag$400$89845%$20318
Christus Southern New Mexico$953$898106%8
Unm Hospital$1,051$898117%$9342
Cibola General Hospital$1,069$927115%14
Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital$1,125$900125%1
Lovelace Medical Center$2,235$898249%$5595
Lovelace Women'S Hospital$2,278$898254%$4515
Lovelace Westside Hospital$2,278$898254%$5065
Presbyterian Hospital$2,349$898262%4
Presbyterian Espanola Hospital$2,508$915274%3
Union County General Hospital$2,852$927308%3
Rehoboth Mckinley Christian Health Care Services$3,412$927368%13
San Juan Regional Medical Center Inc ● actual$3,501$904387%$1,08120
Plains Regional Medical Center$3,710$898413%3
Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center$3,710$947392%3
Socorro General Hospital$3,710$927400%2
Dr Dan C Trigg Memorial Hospital$3,710$927400%2
Lincoln County Medical Center$3,710$927400%2
Memorial Medical Center$4,068$898453%1
Holy Cross Hospital A Div Of Taos Health Systems$4,159$927449%1
Lovelace Regional Hospital - Roswell$4,245$898473%$1,3268
Los Alamos Medical Center$4,752$928512%1
Mountain View Regional Medical Center ● actual$6,415$898714%$1,99320
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center ● actual$9,363$8981043%$1,75221
Carlsbad Medical Center ● actual$12,561$8981399%$3,11624

*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 →