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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 4.0× price range across 31 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
$2,856
$5,213
$7,035
$7,634
$8,050

The part you don’t feel

Southwest Medical Center $10,894vsHospital #1 Of Rice County $2,704 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Southwest Medical Center
Hospital #1 Of Rice County
$8,190you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Southwest Medical Center
Hospital #1 Of Rice County
$1,638$6,552 invisible to you
Out-of-pocket max reacheda bad year, or a big surgery
Southwest Medical Center
Hospital #1 Of Rice County
$0the market goes blind

The gap is $8,190 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
Hospital #1 Of Rice County$2,704———1
William Newton Hospital$2,828———2
Mcpherson Hospital$2,856——$8,8384
Stormont Vail Health Flint Hills$3,183———5
Kansas Spine & Specialty Hospital$4,469———3
Morris County Hospital$4,872———5
Hiawatha Community Hospital$5,131———4
Amberwell Atchison$5,213———6
Ascension Via Christi Hospitals Wichita.$5,516———7
Via Christi Hospital Wichita St Teresa$5,516———7
Stormont Vail Hospital$6,275———5
Centura St. Catherine-Dodge City$6,327———2
Anderson County Hospital$6,371———4
Kansas City Orthopaedic Institute$6,690———8
Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital$6,826———2
Nemaha Valley Community Hospital$6,936———2
Saint John Hospital$7,035———13
Providence Medical Center$7,220———15
Salina Regional Health Center$7,297——$4,0822
St. Catherine Hospital - Garden City$7,510———3
Ascension Via Christi Hospital Manhattan$7,581———1
Hays Medical Center$7,634———1
Susan B Allen Memorial Hospital$7,710———1
Russell Regional Hospital$7,787———1
Wesley Medical Center$7,807———8
Labette Health$8,050———4
Wilson Medical Center$8,074———2
Mercy Hospital Pittsburg$9,376——$5,4074
Overland Park Reg Med Ctr$9,950———17
Menorah Medical Center$9,950———17
Southwest Medical Center$10,894———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 →