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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 24 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
$6,706
$13,572
$15,635
$15,920
$16,815
$18,752
$19,352

The part you don’t feel

St Michael Medical Center $21,287vsProsser Memorial Hospital $5,285 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
St Michael Medical Center
Prosser Memorial Hospital
$16,002you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
St Michael Medical Center
Prosser Memorial Hospital
$3,200$12,802 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 $16,002 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$5,285$5,67593%—1
Tri-State Memorial Hospital$6,278$5,675111%—2
Island Hospital$6,706$5,675118%—3
Pullman Regional Hospital$8,844$5,675156%—2
Multicare Valley Hospital$11,684$5,675206%—21
Cascade Valley Hospital ● actual$12,382$5,675218%$6,7271
Skagit Valley Hospital ● actual$12,721$6,151207%$10,8314
Deaconess Medical Center$12,766$6,140208%—21
Yakima Valley Memorial$13,572$6,112222%—23
Valley Medical Center$15,635$5,937263%$8,8223
Peacehealth Southwest Medical Cente$15,767$6,507242%—3
Capital Medical Center$15,920$5,920269%—23
St Elizabeth Hospital$16,815$5,675296%—10
Highline Medical Center$17,430$5,675307%—10
Multicare Auburn Medical Center$17,511$5,832300%—24
Multicare Good Samaritan Hospital$17,511$5,820301%—24
Tacoma General Allenmore Hospital$17,511$6,901254%—24
Multicare Covington Medical Center$17,511$6,262280%—24
St Clare Hospital$18,752$6,961269%—14
St Joseph Medical Center$18,752$5,675330%—14
St Francis Community Hospital$18,752$5,675330%—14
St Anthony Hospital$19,352$5,651342%—14
Virginia Mason Medical Center$20,401$7,252281%—9
St Michael Medical Center$21,287$7,065301%—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 →