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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 4.0× price range across 23 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
$6,233
$11,624
$12,534
$14,508
$15,248
$17,174
$17,642

The part you don’t feel

St Michael Medical Center $19,397vsProsser Memorial Hospital $4,816 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
St Michael Medical Center
Prosser Memorial Hospital
$14,581you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
St Michael Medical Center
Prosser Memorial Hospital
$2,916$11,665 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 $14,581 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$4,816$5,23892%—1
Tri-State Memorial Hospital$5,988$5,238114%—2
Island Hospital$6,233$5,238119%—3
Pullman Regional Hospital⚠ data flag$7,461$5,238142%—2
Cascade Valley Hospital ● actual$7,948$5,238152%$8,4001
Multicare Valley Hospital$10,657$5,818183%—21
Skagit Valley Hospital ● actual$11,544$6,125188%$8,4474
Valley Medical Center$11,624$5,803200%$8,6681
Deaconess Medical Center$11,644$5,561209%—21
Yakima Valley Memorial$12,534$5,279237%—23
Capital Medical Center$14,508$5,382270%—23
Peacehealth Southwest Medical Cente$14,655$5,791253%—3
St Elizabeth Hospital$15,248$5,238291%—10
Multicare Auburn Medical Center$15,873$5,969266%—24
Multicare Good Samaritan Hospital$15,873$5,301299%—24
Tacoma General Allenmore Hospital$15,873$6,199256%—24
Multicare Covington Medical Center$16,013$5,686282%—24
Highline Medical Center$16,032$5,238306%—10
St Clare Hospital$17,174$5,604306%—14
St Joseph Medical Center$17,174$5,565309%—14
St Francis Community Hospital$17,174$6,592261%—14
St Anthony Hospital$17,642$5,115345%—14
Virginia Mason Medical Center$18,678$7,058265%—9
St Michael Medical Center$19,397$5,996323%—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 →