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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 4.4× price range across 16 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
$198

The part you don’t feel

Memorial Medical Center $718vsChristus Southern New Mexico $163 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Memorial Medical Center
Christus Southern New Mexico
$555you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Memorial Medical Center
Christus Southern New Mexico
$111$444 invisible to you
Out-of-pocket max reacheda bad year, or a big surgery
Memorial Medical Center
Christus Southern New Mexico
$0the market goes blind

The gap is $555 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
Nor-Lea Hospital⚠ data flag$97$18153%2
Christus Southern New Mexico$163$17693%8
Sierra Vista Hospital$194$181107%8
Unm Hospital$198$176113%$812
Artesia General Hospital$201$176114%$11918
San Juan Regional Medical Center Inc ● actual$244$177138%$7320
Cibola General Hospital$253$181139%14
Rehoboth Mckinley Christian Health Care Services$258$181142%13
Presbyterian Hospital$375$176213%4
Presbyterian Espanola Hospital$400$179223%3
Mimbres Valley Medical Center$412$181227%9
Plains Regional Medical Center$592$176337%3
Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center$592$185319%3
Socorro General Hospital$592$181326%2
Dr Dan C Trigg Memorial Hospital$592$181326%2
Lincoln County Medical Center$592$181326%2
Memorial Medical Center$718$176409%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 →