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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 18.7× price range across 30 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
$731
$773

The part you don’t feel

Lovelace Regional Hospital - Roswell $5,527vsCovenant Health Hobbs Hospital $296 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Lovelace Regional Hospital - Roswell
Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital
$5,232you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Lovelace Regional Hospital - Roswell
Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital
$1,046$4,185 invisible to you
Out-of-pocket max reacheda bad year, or a big surgery
Lovelace Regional Hospital - Roswell
Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital
$0the market goes blind

The gap is $5,232 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
Presbyterian Hospital$586$236248%—4
Presbyterian Espanola Hospital$626$241260%—3
Unm Hospital ● actual$731$236309%~$5614
Nor-Lea Hospital ● actual$773$244317%—8
Plains Regional Medical Center$926$236392%—3
Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center$926$249372%—3
Socorro General Hospital$926$244380%—2
Dr Dan C Trigg Memorial Hospital$926$244380%—2
Lincoln County Medical Center$926$244380%—2
Sierra Vista Hospital$1,521$244624%—8
Roosevelt General Hospital$1,608$236681%~$5969
Cibola General Hospital ● actual$1,650$244677%—15
Memorial Medical Center$1,883$236797%—2
Rehoboth Mckinley Christian Health Care Services$2,332$244957%—12
Lovelace Women'S Hospital$2,500$2361058%~$4959
Lovelace Westside Hospital$2,500$2361058%~$5557
Los Alamos Medical Center$2,817$2441153%—1
Lovelace Medical Center$2,944$2361246%~$7367
Gila Regional Medical Center$2,944$2441208%—3
Union County General Hospital$2,977$2441221%—3
Artesia General Hospital$3,146$2361332%~$1,86818
Carlsbad Medical Center$4,379$2361854%~$1,02621
Mimbres Valley Medical Center ● actual$4,383$2441798%—9
San Juan Regional Medical Center Inc$4,507$2381895%~$1,39220
Alta Vista Regional Hospital$4,624$2441897%—14
Mountain View Regional Medical Center$5,086$2362153%~$1,23517
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center$5,304$2362246%~$94119
Lovelace Regional Hospital - Roswell$5,527$2362340%~$1,7269

*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 →