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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 3.8× price range across 32 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
$3,786
$7,828
$9,471
$9,471
$12,480
$13,936
$14,214

The part you don’t feel

Southwest Medical Center $14,375vsWilliam Newton Hospital $3,749 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Southwest Medical Center
William Newton Hospital
$10,627you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Southwest Medical Center
William Newton Hospital
$2,125$8,501 invisible to you
Out-of-pocket max reacheda bad year, or a big surgery
Southwest Medical Center
William Newton Hospital
$0the market goes blind

The gap is $10,627 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
William Newton Hospital$3,749———2
Mcpherson Hospital$3,786——$13,4164
Stormont Vail Health Flint Hills$4,246———5
Hospital #1 Of Rice County$4,327———1
Kansas Spine & Specialty Hospital$5,464———3
Hiawatha Community Hospital$6,756———4
Morris County Hospital$7,818———5
Amberwell Atchison$7,828———6
Wamego Health Center$8,079———1
Ascension Via Christi Hospital Manhattan$8,268———2
Stormont Vail Hospital$8,371———5
Centura St. Catherine-Dodge City$8,479———2
Wesley Medical Center$8,782———8
Nemaha Valley Community Hospital$8,855———2
Salina Regional Health Center$9,054——$7,5102
Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital$9,105———2
Saint John Hospital$9,471———13
Hays Medical Center$9,471———1
Providence Medical Center$9,578———15
Kansas City Orthopaedic Institute$9,606———8
Ascension Via Christi Hospitals Wichita.$9,621———3
Via Christi Hospital Wichita St Teresa$9,621———3
Russell Regional Hospital$9,756———1
St. Catherine Hospital - Garden City$9,972———3
Anderson County Hospital$10,508———2
Susan B Allen Memorial Hospital$11,313———1
Mercy Hospital Pittsburg$11,747——$14,9944
Labette Health$12,480———4
Overland Park Reg Med Ctr$13,155———17
Menorah Medical Center$13,936———17
Wilson Medical Center$14,214———2
Southwest Medical Center$14,375———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 August 21–22, 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 →