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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 4.0× price range across 22 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
$9,885
$19,106
$23,048
$23,583
$24,990
$29,734
$29,734

The part you don’t feel

St Michael Medical Center $31,534vsProsser Memorial Hospital $7,829 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
St Michael Medical Center
Prosser Memorial Hospital
$23,705you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
St Michael Medical Center
Prosser Memorial Hospital
$4,741$18,964 invisible to you
Out-of-pocket max reacheda bad year, or a big surgery
St Michael Medical Center
Prosser Memorial Hospital
$0the market goes blind

The gap is $23,705 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
Grays Harbor Community Hospital⚠ data flag$1,852$9,97919%$10,1921
Prosser Memorial Hospital$7,829$8,96287%—1
Island Hospital$9,885$9,905100%—3
Pullman Regional Hospital⚠ data flag$11,756$8,962131%—2
Tri-State Memorial Hospital$12,907$8,962144%—2
Multicare Valley Hospital$16,956$9,194184%—21
Skagit Valley Hospital ● actual$18,462$10,609174%$13,0304
Deaconess Medical Center$18,527$9,164202%—21
Yakima Valley Memorial$19,106$9,493201%—23
Valley Medical Center$23,048$9,693238%$11,3903
Peacehealth Southwest Medical Cente$23,242$9,900235%—3
Capital Medical Center$23,583$8,954263%—23
St Elizabeth Hospital$24,990$8,962279%—10
Multicare Auburn Medical Center$25,661$9,961258%—24
Multicare Good Samaritan Hospital$25,661$9,261277%—24
Tacoma General Allenmore Hospital$25,661$10,910235%—24
Multicare Covington Medical Center$25,661$10,143253%—24
Highline Medical Center$28,182$10,064280%—10
St Clare Hospital$29,734$9,521312%—14
St Joseph Medical Center$29,734$9,648308%—14
St Francis Community Hospital$29,734$9,520312%—14
St Anthony Hospital$29,734$8,882335%—14
Virginia Mason Medical Center$30,046$11,372264%—9
St Michael Medical Center$31,534$10,577298%—5

*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 16, 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 →