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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 3.2× price range across 38 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
$10,417
$12,151
$14,734
$15,877
$16,200
$16,308
$21,177

The part you don’t feel

Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center $26,415vsCommunity Memorial Hospital $8,374 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center
Community Memorial Hospital
$18,041you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center
Community Memorial Hospital
$3,608$14,433 invisible to you
Out-of-pocket max reacheda bad year, or a big surgery
Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center
Community Memorial Hospital
$0the market goes blind

The gap is $18,041 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
Community Memorial Hospital$8,374———3
Virginia Hospital Center ● actual$8,548———10
Clinch Valley Medical Center$9,755———7
Stafford Hospital$10,417———7
Wythe County Community Hospital$10,724———4
Mary Washington Hospital$10,789———7
John Randolph Medical Center$11,440———18
Twin County Regional Hospital$11,597———4
Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center$12,107———15
Cjw Medical Center$12,151———19
Henrico Doctors' Hospital$12,436———19
Lewisgale Medical Center$14,147———12
Lewisgale Hospital Montgomery$14,147———10
Uva Health Culpeper Medical Center$14,318——$10,0425
Southside Community Hospital$14,695———2
Reston Hospital Center$14,734———15
Stonesprings Hospital Center$14,734———15
Inova Fair Oaks Hospital ● actual$15,544———17
Sovah Health Danville$15,877———4
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital$16,034———4
Inova Alexandria Hospital ● actual$16,200———15
Inova Loudoun Hospital ● actual$16,200———15
Inova Mount Vernon Hospital$16,200———15
Mary Immaculate Hospital$16,273———8
Inova Fairfax Hospital ● actual$16,308———15
Lewisgale Hospital Alleghany$16,369———6
Bon Secours Southside Medical Center$16,529———2
Riverside Walter Reed Hospital$16,682———4
Riverside Doctors' Hospital Of Williamsburg$16,770———4
Uva Health Prince William Medical Center ● actual$17,059——$11,63312
Medical College Of Virginia Hospitals ● actual$17,313———5
Centra Health - Lynchburg Gen Hospital$17,783———2
Lewisgale Hospital Pulaski$18,556———5
Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital$18,904———6
Riverside Regional Medical Center$19,451———6
Fauquier Hospital$21,177———3
University Of Virginia Medical Center ● actual$22,573——$11,57811
Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center$26,415———6

*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 September 18, 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 →