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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 3.4× 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
$8,599
$16,037
$16,046
$18,180
$20,398
$23,596
$23,596

The part you don’t feel

St Michael Medical Center $25,662vsProsser Memorial Hospital $7,600 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
St Michael Medical Center
Prosser Memorial Hospital
$18,062you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
St Michael Medical Center
Prosser Memorial Hospital
$3,612$14,450 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 $18,062 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$7,600———1
Island Hospital$8,599———3
Pullman Regional Hospital$8,951———2
Multicare Valley Hospital$12,982———21
Deaconess Medical Center$13,378———21
Skagit Valley Hospital ● actual$15,234——$17,5424
Multicare Auburn Medical Center$15,757———24
Multicare Good Samaritan Hospital$15,757———24
Multicare Covington Medical Center$15,908———23
Valley Medical Center ● actual$16,037——$9,0363
Yakima Valley Memorial$16,046———24
Tacoma General Allenmore Hospital$16,968———20
Capital Medical Center$18,180———23
Peacehealth Southwest Medical Cente$20,219———3
St Elizabeth Hospital$20,398———10
Highline Medical Center$21,344———9
Virginia Mason Medical Center$22,509———6
St Clare Hospital$23,596———13
St Joseph Medical Center$23,596———13
St Francis Community Hospital$23,596———13
St Anthony Hospital$23,596———13
St Michael Medical Center$25,662———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 →