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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 3.9× price range across 22 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
$7,402
$14,638
$17,420
$18,332
$20,062
$21,156

The part you don’t feel

St Michael Medical Center $22,654vsProsser Memorial Hospital $5,783 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
St Michael Medical Center
Prosser Memorial Hospital
$16,871you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
St Michael Medical Center
Prosser Memorial Hospital
$3,374$13,497 invisible to you
Out-of-pocket max reacheda bad year, or a big surgery
St Michael Medical Center
Prosser Memorial Hospital
$0the market goes blind

The gap is $16,871 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
Prosser Memorial Hospital$5,783$6,14294%—1
Tri-State Memorial Hospital$6,864$6,142112%—2
Island Hospital$7,402$6,142121%—3
Pullman Regional Hospital$9,762$6,142159%—2
Multicare Valley Hospital$12,762$6,142208%—21
Skagit Valley Hospital$13,877$6,142226%$21,8504
Deaconess Medical Center$13,944$6,484215%—21
Yakima Valley Memorial$14,638$6,579222%—23
Peacehealth Southwest Medical Cente$17,403$7,561230%—3
Capital Medical Center$17,420$6,142284%—23
St Elizabeth Hospital$18,332$6,142298%—10
Highline Medical Center$19,039$6,142310%—10
Multicare Auburn Medical Center$19,115$6,142311%—24
Multicare Good Samaritan Hospital$19,115$6,682286%—24
Tacoma General Allenmore Hospital$19,115$7,039272%—24
Multicare Covington Medical Center$19,115$6,142311%—24
St Clare Hospital$20,062$6,076330%—14
St Joseph Medical Center$20,062$6,655301%—14
St Francis Community Hospital$20,062$6,142327%—14
St Anthony Hospital$21,156$6,322335%—14
Virginia Mason Medical Center$22,369$7,974281%—9
St Michael Medical Center$22,654$6,142369%—5

*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 16, 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 →