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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 description masters
  2. charge down
  3. charge hand
  4. charge hands
  5. charge like a wounded bull
  6. charge master
  7. charge masters
  8. charge nurse
  9. charge nurses
  10. charge off
  11. charge offs

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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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