Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file.
The same procedure spans a 4.5× price range across 42 Colorado hospitals.
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.
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*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.