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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 2.7× price range across 39 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
$9,980
$12,151
$13,528
$14,734
$15,278
$15,331
$18,043

The part you don’t feel

Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center $22,678vsVirginia Hospital Center $8,351 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center
Virginia Hospital Center
$14,327you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center
Virginia Hospital Center
$2,865$11,462 invisible to you
Out-of-pocket max reacheda bad year, or a big surgery
Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center
Virginia Hospital Center
$0the market goes blind

The gap is $14,327 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
Virginia Hospital Center ● actual$8,351———10
Community Memorial Hospital$8,374———3
Clinch Valley Medical Center$9,755———7
Wythe County Community Hospital$9,859———4
Twin County Regional Hospital$9,881———4
Stafford Hospital$9,980———7
Mary Washington Hospital$10,789———7
John Randolph Medical Center$11,440———18
Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center$12,107———15
Cjw Medical Center$12,151———19
Henrico Doctors' Hospital$12,436———19
Uva Health Prince William Medical Center ● actual$12,511——$10,63412
Southside Community Hospital$12,616———2
Sovah Health Danville$13,528———4
Lewisgale Medical Center$14,147———12
Lewisgale Hospital Montgomery$14,147———10
Bon Secours Southside Medical Center$14,190———3
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital$14,282———4
Uva Health Culpeper Medical Center ● actual$14,318——$9,3915
Reston Hospital Center$14,734———15
Stonesprings Hospital Center$14,734———15
Mary Immaculate Hospital$15,122———8
Centra Health - Lynchburg Gen Hospital$15,267———2
Inova Alexandria Hospital ● actual$15,278———15
Inova Loudoun Hospital ● actual$15,278———15
Inova Fair Oaks Hospital ● actual$15,278———17
Inova Mount Vernon Hospital$15,278———15
Inova Fairfax Hospital ● actual$15,331———15
Riverside Walter Reed Hospital$16,319———4
Riverside Doctors' Hospital Of Williamsburg$16,319———4
Lewisgale Hospital Alleghany$16,369———6
Medical College Of Virginia Hospitals ● actual$16,646———5
Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital$17,158———6
Riverside Regional Medical Center$17,158———6
Fauquier Hospital$18,043———3
Lewisgale Hospital Pulaski$18,556———5
University Of Virginia Medical Center ● actual$19,379——$9,84511
Bon Secours St Marys Hospital$22,678———6
Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center$22,678———6

*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 September 18, 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 →