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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 31.9× price range across 29 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
$560
$904

The part you don’t feel

Mimbres Valley Medical Center $4,131vsCovenant Health Hobbs Hospital $130 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Mimbres Valley Medical Center
Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital
$4,001you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Mimbres Valley Medical Center
Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital
$800$3,201 invisible to you
Out-of-pocket max reacheda bad year, or a big surgery
Mimbres Valley Medical Center
Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital
$0the market goes blind

The gap is $4,001 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
Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital$130$104125%—1
Christus Southern New Mexico$162$104157%—3
Presbyterian Hospital$435$104420%—4
Presbyterian Espanola Hospital$469$105445%—3
Unm Hospital ● actual$560$104541%~$5506
Plains Regional Medical Center$695$104671%—3
Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center$695$109636%—3
Socorro General Hospital$695$107650%—2
Dr Dan C Trigg Memorial Hospital$695$107650%—2
Lincoln County Medical Center$695$107650%—2
Nor-Lea Hospital ● actual$904$107847%—14
Cibola General Hospital ● actual$1,091$1071021%—15
Memorial Medical Center$1,190$1041150%—2
Union County General Hospital$1,251$1071171%—3
Sierra Vista Hospital ● actual$1,423$1071333%—8
Roosevelt General Hospital ● actual$1,456$1041407%~$5399
Los Alamos Medical Center$1,572$1071469%—1
Lovelace Medical Center$1,661$1041605%~$4157
Lovelace Women'S Hospital$1,692$1041635%~$3359
Lovelace Westside Hospital$1,692$1041635%~$3767
Gila Regional Medical Center ● actual$2,039$1071909%—4
San Juan Regional Medical Center Inc ● actual$2,196$1042107%~$67820
Artesia General Hospital$2,247$1042171%~$1,33418
Alta Vista Regional Hospital ● actual$3,259$1073051%—14
Lovelace Regional Hospital - Roswell$3,439$1043323%~$1,0749
Mountain View Regional Medical Center ● actual$3,460$1043343%~$84017
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center$3,502$1043383%~$62119
Carlsbad Medical Center ● actual$4,066$1043929%~$95321
Mimbres Valley Medical Center ● actual$4,131$1073867%—9

*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 →