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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 14.2× price range across 27 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
$75
$136

The part you don’t feel

Carlsbad Medical Center $1,061vsUnm Hospital $75 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Carlsbad Medical Center
Unm Hospital
$987you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Carlsbad Medical Center
Unm Hospital
$197$789 invisible to you
Out-of-pocket max reacheda bad year, or a big surgery
Carlsbad Medical Center
Unm Hospital
$0the market goes blind

The gap is $987 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$75~$941
Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital$991
Presbyterian Hospital$1264
Nor-Lea Hospital ● actual$13611
Christus Southern New Mexico$1381
Presbyterian Espanola Hospital$1553
Sierra Vista Hospital$2198
Plains Regional Medical Center$2293
Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center$2293
Socorro General Hospital$2292
Dr Dan C Trigg Memorial Hospital$2292
Lincoln County Medical Center$2292
Cibola General Hospital ● actual$36315
Gila Regional Medical Center$3642
Christus St Vincent Regional Medical Center$3958
San Juan Regional Medical Center Inc$398~$12320
Mountain View Regional Medical Center$403~$10020
Mimbres Valley Medical Center$4169
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center$426~$8222
Artesia General Hospital$447~$24918
Lovelace Women'S Hospital$555~$6131
Lovelace Westside Hospital$555~$6825
Lovelace Regional Hospital - Roswell$555~$12528
Alta Vista Regional Hospital$68143
Memorial Medical Center$8671
Los Alamos Medical Center$1,0121
Carlsbad Medical Center$1,061~$25724

*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 →