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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 21.4× 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
$470
$773

The part you don’t feel

Mountain View Regional Medical Center $6,325vsCovenant Health Hobbs Hospital $296 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Mountain View Regional Medical Center
Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital
$6,029you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Mountain View Regional Medical Center
Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital
$1,206$4,823 invisible to you
Out-of-pocket max reacheda bad year, or a big surgery
Mountain View Regional Medical Center
Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital
$0the market goes blind

The gap is $6,029 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$296$237125%—1
Christus Southern New Mexico$369$236156%—3
Unm Hospital ● actual$470$236199%~$1,0305
Presbyterian Hospital$651$236276%—4
Presbyterian Espanola Hospital$695$241289%—3
Nor-Lea Hospital ● actual$773$244317%—13
Plains Regional Medical Center$1,028$236435%—3
Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center$1,028$249413%—3
Socorro General Hospital$1,028$244422%—2
Dr Dan C Trigg Memorial Hospital$1,028$244422%—2
Lincoln County Medical Center$1,028$244422%—2
Roosevelt General Hospital$1,470$236622%~$5449
Cibola General Hospital ● actual$1,610$244661%—15
Lovelace Women'S Hospital$1,633$236691%~$3239
Lovelace Westside Hospital$1,633$236691%~$3637
Sierra Vista Hospital$1,643$244674%—8
Memorial Medical Center$1,883$236797%—2
Lovelace Medical Center$2,136$236904%~$5347
Los Alamos Medical Center$2,817$2441153%—1
Gila Regional Medical Center$2,985$2441224%—3
San Juan Regional Medical Center Inc ● actual$3,214$2381352%~$99220
Mimbres Valley Medical Center ● actual$3,279$2441345%—9
Artesia General Hospital$3,389$2361435%~$2,01118
Union County General Hospital$3,614$2441483%—3
Carlsbad Medical Center$3,981$2361685%~$93321
Lovelace Regional Hospital - Roswell$4,714$2361996%~$1,4729
Alta Vista Regional Hospital$5,757$2442362%—14
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center$5,884$2362491%~$1,04419
Mountain View Regional Medical Center ● actual$6,325$2362678%~$1,53617

*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 →