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charge-master

charge-master is the alternative form of chargemaster.

Meaning of chargemaster

Noun

chargemaster (plural chargemasters)

  1. (US) A comprehensive list maintained by a hospital of prices of goods and services it will bill to its patients and their respective health insurers.
    • The patient faced bankruptcy because she couldn't pay off the hundreds of thousands of dollars accrued from her hospital bill, including a price from the chargemaster for a single acetaminophen pill at ten times the cost for the same pill over-the-counter at a pharmacy.

Forms of charge-master

pluralcharge-masters

Questions about charge-master

What is charge-master the alternative form of?
Charge-master is the alternative form of chargemaster.

Words near charge-master in the dictionary

  1. charge-coupled devices
  2. charge-density wave
  3. charge-density waves
  4. charge-hand
  5. charge-hands
  6. charge-master
  7. charge-masters
  8. charge-off
  9. charge-offs
  10. chargeabilities
  11. chargeability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: charge-master (page history and authors); chargemaster (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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