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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 3.5× 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
$8,509

The part you don’t feel

Memorial Medical Center $15,476vsMountain View Regional Medical Center $4,470 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Memorial Medical Center
Mountain View Regional Medical Center
$11,006you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Memorial Medical Center
Mountain View Regional Medical Center
$2,201$8,805 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 $11,006 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
Mimbres Valley Medical Center⚠ data flag$3,436$6,14256%2
Mountain View Regional Medical Center ● actual$4,470$6,14273%4
Carlsbad Medical Center$6,064$6,14299%6
Artesia General Hospital$6,313$6,142103%5
Christus Southern New Mexico$7,710$6,142126%9
San Juan Regional Medical Center Inc$7,808$6,142127%$11,9519
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center$7,966$6,142130%2
Unm Hospital$8,509$9,04794%1
Los Alamos Medical Center$8,687$6,142141%4
Christus St Vincent Regional Medical Center$9,844$8,660114%9
Memorial Medical Center$15,476$6,142252%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 →