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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 2.7× price range across 10 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

The part you don’t feel

Memorial Medical Center $26,712vsMountain View Regional Medical Center $9,739 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Memorial Medical Center
Mountain View Regional Medical Center
$16,973you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Memorial Medical Center
Mountain View Regional Medical Center
$3,395$13,578 invisible to you
Out-of-pocket max reacheda bad year, or a big surgery
Memorial Medical Center
Mountain View Regional Medical Center
$0the market goes blind

The gap is $16,973 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
Unm Hospital⚠ data flag$8,509$18,96545%1
Mountain View Regional Medical Center$9,739$14,35668%4
Mimbres Valley Medical Center$10,088$13,87673%2
Carlsbad Medical Center$13,212$13,87695%6
Artesia General Hospital$13,591$13,87698%5
Christus Southern New Mexico$16,599$21,57977%9
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center$17,357$13,876125%2
San Juan Regional Medical Center Inc$18,660$17,424107%$18,2519
Los Alamos Medical Center$19,573$13,876141%4
Christus St Vincent Regional Medical Center$21,193$20,952101%9
Memorial Medical Center$26,712$14,135189%4

*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 →