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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 3.9× 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

Holy Cross Hospital A Div Of Taos Health Systems $2,183vsChristus Southern New Mexico $558 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Holy Cross Hospital A Div Of Taos Health Systems
Christus Southern New Mexico
$1,625you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Holy Cross Hospital A Div Of Taos Health Systems
Christus Southern New Mexico
$325$1,300 invisible to you
Out-of-pocket max reacheda bad year, or a big surgery
Holy Cross Hospital A Div Of Taos Health Systems
Christus Southern New Mexico
$0the market goes blind

The gap is $1,625 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$235$54443%$5243
Christus Southern New Mexico$558$544102%8
Christus St Vincent Regional Medical Center$579$575101%21
Presbyterian Hospital$1,167$544214%4
Presbyterian Espanola Hospital$1,246$555225%3
Plains Regional Medical Center$1,844$544339%3
Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center$1,844$575321%3
Socorro General Hospital$1,844$562328%2
Dr Dan C Trigg Memorial Hospital$1,844$562328%2
Lincoln County Medical Center$1,844$562328%2
Holy Cross Hospital A Div Of Taos Health Systems$2,183$562388%1

*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 →