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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 70.3× price range across 28 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
$6
$12

The part you don’t feel

Eastern New Mexico Medical Center $278vsCovenant Health Hobbs Hospital $4 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center
Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital
$274you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center
Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital
$55$219 invisible to you
Out-of-pocket max reacheda bad year, or a big surgery
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center
Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital
$0the market goes blind

The gap is $274 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$4$3125%—1
Christus Southern New Mexico$5$3161%—3
Unm Hospital ● actual$6$3200%~$137
Carlsbad Medical Center$12$3372%~$321
Nor-Lea Hospital ● actual$12$3393%—14
Mountain View Regional Medical Center$23$3729%~$617
Presbyterian Hospital$28$3869%—4
Los Alamos Medical Center$31$3966%—1
Memorial Medical Center$38$31186%—2
Artesia General Hospital$50$31565%~$2918
Roosevelt General Hospital ● actual$57$31793%~$219
Presbyterian Espanola Hospital$58$31823%—3
Sierra Vista Hospital ● actual$63$31998%—8
Gila Regional Medical Center ● actual$67$32126%—5
San Juan Regional Medical Center Inc ● actual$68$32145%~$2120
Plains Regional Medical Center$85$32696%—3
Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center$85$32696%—3
Socorro General Hospital$85$32696%—2
Dr Dan C Trigg Memorial Hospital$85$32696%—2
Lincoln County Medical Center$85$32696%—2
Rehoboth Mckinley Christian Health Care Services$122$33833%—12
Mimbres Valley Medical Center ● actual$126$33980%—9
Alta Vista Regional Hospital ● actual$133$34205%—14
Lovelace Medical Center$172$35423%~$2425
Lovelace Women'S Hospital$175$35508%~$1931
Lovelace Westside Hospital$175$35508%~$2225
Lovelace Regional Hospital - Roswell$244$37694%~$5527
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center$278$38780%~$4919

*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 →