Christus St Vincent Regional Medical Center vs Mountain View Hospital

Christus St Vincent Regional Medical Center is in New Mexico; Mountain View Hospital is in Utah. Cross-state comparisons need to account for the Medicare wage-index adjustment, which can move payments by 30% between high-cost-of-living states and low-cost-of-living ones, before any hospital-specific factors enter. Average payments are close: $11,550 vs $11,668, only 1% apart. With cost close to tied, the quality measures do most of the work in the value-rubric comparison. Christus St Vincent Regional Medical Center comes out slightly ahead.

With costs this close, the choice between these two hospitals turns on the quality measure set, geographic convenience, or insurance-network status rather than payment-per-procedure differences.