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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 3.9× price range across 34 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
$3,626
$7,222
$7,929
$7,929
$10,898
$13,538
$13,936

The part you don’t feel

Menorah Medical Center $13,936vsWilliam Newton Hospital $3,590 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Menorah Medical Center
William Newton Hospital
$10,346you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Menorah Medical Center
William Newton Hospital
$2,069$8,277 invisible to you
Out-of-pocket max reacheda bad year, or a big surgery
Menorah Medical Center
William Newton Hospital
$0the market goes blind

The gap is $10,346 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$3,590———2
Mcpherson Hospital$3,626——$15,1214
Stormont Vail Health Flint Hills$4,044———5
Hospital #1 Of Rice County$4,327———1
Kansas Spine & Specialty Hospital$5,459———3
Hiawatha Community Hospital$5,701———4
Morris County Hospital$6,712———5
Great Plains Of Sabetha$7,135———3
Amberwell Atchison$7,222———6
Centura St. Catherine-Dodge City$7,546———2
Salina Regional Health Center$7,579——$7,1112
Saint John Hospital$7,929———13
Hays Medical Center$7,929———1
Stormont Vail Hospital$7,972———5
Kansas City Orthopaedic Institute$7,992———8
Nemaha Valley Community Hospital$8,061———2
Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital$8,069———2
Wamego Health Center$8,079———1
Russell Regional Hospital$8,167———1
Community Memorial Healthcare.$8,167———1
Ascension Via Christi Hospital Manhattan$8,268———2
Wesley Medical Center$8,782———8
St. Catherine Hospital - Garden City$9,563———3
Providence Medical Center$9,578———15
Ascension Via Christi Hospitals Wichita.$9,621———3
Via Christi Hospital Wichita St Teresa$9,621———3
Susan B Allen Memorial Hospital$9,640———1
Anderson County Hospital$9,797———2
Mercy Hospital Pittsburg$9,834——$14,3194
Labette Health$10,898———4
Southwest Medical Center$12,342———3
Overland Park Reg Med Ctr$13,155———17
Wilson Medical Center$13,538———3
Menorah Medical Center$13,936———17

*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 →