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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 4.2× price range across 27 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
$47,278
$75,739
$75,739
$75,739
$76,637
$79,729
$79,729
$79,729
$79,729

The part you don’t feel

Sarasota Memorial Hospital - Venice $89,842vsGood Samaritan Medical Center $21,210 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Sarasota Memorial Hospital - Venice
Good Samaritan Medical Center
$68,632you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Sarasota Memorial Hospital - Venice
Good Samaritan Medical Center
$13,726$54,906 invisible to you
Out-of-pocket max reacheda bad year, or a big surgery
Sarasota Memorial Hospital - Venice
Good Samaritan Medical Center
$0the market goes blind

The gap is $68,632 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
Good Samaritan Medical Center$21,210$25,41383%—2
St Mary'S Medical Center$21,210$23,20891%—2
Hca Florida Gulf Coast Hospital$43,300$25,413170%—1
Larkin Community Hospital$43,532$25,413171%$25,86031
Jackson Health System$47,278$36,923128%$23,22717
Mease Dunedin Hospital$75,739$25,413298%—8
Morton Plant North Bay Hospital$75,739$25,413298%—8
St Anthonys Hospital$75,739$25,413298%—8
St Josephs Hospital$75,739$25,413298%—8
Bartow Regional Medical Center$75,739$25,413298%—8
Morton Plant Hospital$75,739$23,401324%—8
South Florida Baptist Hospital$75,739$25,413298%—8
Mease Countryside Hospital$75,739$25,413298%—8
Baycare Hospital Wesley Chapel$75,739$25,413298%—8
Winter Haven Hospital$76,637$25,413302%—9
Holmes Regional Medical Center$79,729$25,861308%—3
Parrish Medical Center$79,729$25,413314%—2
North Shore Medical Center$79,729$25,413314%—12
Mount Sinai Medical Center Of Florida$79,729$28,466280%—6
Hialeah Hospital$79,729$25,413314%—14
Cape Canaveral Hospital$79,729$25,413314%—3
Coral Gables Hospital$79,729$25,413314%—14
Palmetto General Hospital$79,729$25,413314%—13
Viera Hospital$79,729$25,413314%—3
Palm Bay Hospital$79,729$25,413314%—3
Sarasota Memorial Hospital$87,124$25,735339%—3
Sarasota Memorial Hospital - Venice$89,842$25,413354%—3

*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 October 6, 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 →