Major small and large bowel procedures, with CCMS-DRG 330General surgery

Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 4.0× price range across 23 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
$18,458
$34,532
$42,963
$43,037
$46,160
$52,910
$52,910

The part you don’t feel

St Michael Medical Center $57,126vsProsser Memorial Hospital $14,182 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
St Michael Medical Center
Prosser Memorial Hospital
$42,944you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
St Michael Medical Center
Prosser Memorial Hospital
$8,589$34,355 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 $42,944 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
Prosser Memorial Hospital$14,182$16,20288%—1
Island Hospital$18,458$16,202114%—3
Tri-State Memorial Hospital$18,736$16,202116%—2
Pullman Regional Hospital$24,344$16,202150%—2
Multicare Valley Hospital$31,328$16,479190%—21
Deaconess Medical Center$34,229$15,392222%—21
Yakima Valley Memorial$34,532$18,259189%—23
Skagit Valley Hospital$34,729$16,202214%$46,6544
Capital Medical Center$42,963$17,883240%—23
Valley Medical Center$43,037$13,672315%$29,9203
Peacehealth Southwest Medical Cente$43,399$18,698232%—3
St Elizabeth Hospital$46,160$16,202285%—10
Multicare Auburn Medical Center$47,415$16,202293%—24
Multicare Good Samaritan Hospital$47,415$14,353330%—24
Tacoma General Allenmore Hospital$47,415$14,213334%—24
Multicare Covington Medical Center$47,415$16,202293%—24
Highline Medical Center$49,715$16,202307%—10
St Clare Hospital$52,910$16,202327%—14
St Joseph Medical Center$52,910$18,265290%—14
St Francis Community Hospital$52,910$16,202327%—14
St Anthony Hospital$52,910$16,202327%—14
Virginia Mason Medical Center$55,280$20,708267%—9
St Michael Medical Center$57,126$19,751289%—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 →