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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 11.1× price range across 27 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
$126
$136

The part you don’t feel

Carlsbad Medical Center $1,098vsCovenant Health Hobbs Hospital $99 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Carlsbad Medical Center
Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital
$999you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Carlsbad Medical Center
Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital
$200$799 invisible to you
Out-of-pocket max reacheda bad year, or a big surgery
Carlsbad Medical Center
Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital
$0the market goes blind

The gap is $999 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$99———1
Presbyterian Hospital$126———4
Unm Hospital ● actual$126——~$942
Nor-Lea Hospital ● actual$136———11
Christus Southern New Mexico$138———1
Presbyterian Espanola Hospital$155———3
Sierra Vista Hospital$219———8
Plains Regional Medical Center$229———3
Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center$229———3
Socorro General Hospital$229———2
Dr Dan C Trigg Memorial Hospital$229———2
Lincoln County Medical Center$229———2
Cibola General Hospital ● actual$363———15
Gila Regional Medical Center$364———2
Christus St Vincent Regional Medical Center$395———8
San Juan Regional Medical Center Inc$398——~$12320
Mimbres Valley Medical Center$416———9
Artesia General Hospital$434——~$24917
Mountain View Regional Medical Center$443——~$10017
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center$452——~$8220
Alta Vista Regional Hospital$501———14
Lovelace Women'S Hospital$555——~$6131
Lovelace Westside Hospital$555——~$6825
Lovelace Regional Hospital - Roswell$555——~$12528
Memorial Medical Center$867———1
Los Alamos Medical Center$1,012———1
Carlsbad Medical Center$1,098——~$25721

*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 →