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Median commercial negotiated rate by hospital, from each hospital's own disclosure file. The same procedure spans a 15.6× 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
$340
$1,201

The part you don’t feel

Coulee Medical Center $1,201vsWhitman Hospital And Medical Center $77 what you pay what your plan pays
Deductible not metearly in the plan year
Coulee Medical Center
Whitman Hospital And Medical Center
$1,124you feel all of it
Deductible met20% coinsurance
Coulee Medical Center
Whitman Hospital And Medical Center
$225$899 invisible to you
Out-of-pocket max reacheda bad year, or a big surgery
Coulee Medical Center
Whitman Hospital And Medical Center
$0the market goes blind

The gap is $1,124 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
Whitman Hospital And Medical Center$77———4
Lincoln Hospital$99———7
Lake Chelan Community Hospital$150———6
Jefferson Healthcare$163———7
Arbor Health Morton Hospital$168———15
Astria Toppenish Hospital$173——$915
Multicare Auburn Medical Center$180———5
Multicare Covington Medical Center$180———5
Astria Sunnyside Hospital$189———13
Tacoma General Allenmore Hospital ● actual$190———6
Mid Valley Hospital & Clinic$206———14
Capital Medical Center$207———5
Valley Medical Center$233——$7632
Yakima Valley Memorial$240———5
Forks Community Hospital$264———5
Multicare Valley Hospital$288———1
Multicare Good Samaritan Hospital ● actual$312———1
Kittitas Valley Community Hospital$317———6
Island Hospital$340——$17715
Garfield County Public Hospital #1$344———5
Whidbeyhealth Medical Center ● actual$361———5
Pullman Regional Hospital$385———20
Overlake Hospital Medical Center & Clinics$466———1
Prosser Memorial Hospital$507———2
Columbia Basin Hospital$517———7
Cascade Medical Center$613———9
Dayton General Hospital$724———18
Coulee Medical Center$1,201———19

*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 →