chargemaster
chargemaster noun: a comprehensive list maintained by a hospital of prices of goods and services it will bill to its patients and their respective health insurers.
Noun
chargemaster (plural chargemasters)
- 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.
- Much ink has been spilt bemoaning that incomprehensible foundation of hospital cost accounting and prices, the redoubtable chargemaster.2007, James C. Robinson, “Price Transparency Begins at Home”, in Frontiers of Health Services Management, volume 23, number 3, American College of Healthcare Executives, archived from the original on...
Examples of chargemaster in a sentence
- The higher the chargemaster markup over cost, the greater the potential for profit.2008, T. Neil Davis, Mired in the Health Care Morass, Ester Republic Press, →ISBN, page 66:
- What a hospital is actually paid by an MCO, Medicare, or Medicaid is rarely even close to what is listed on the chargemaster.2009, Peter Kongstvedt, Managed Care: What It Is and How It Works, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, page 212:
- Of particular importance, other than in Maryland, hospitals are generally free to charge whatever they want in their chargemaster.2012, Peter Reid Kongstvedt, Essentials of Managed Health Care, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, pages 114–115:
- California is a unique state in that all hospitals are required to submit a copy of their chargemasters, which the state then posts online for all consumers and patients to see.2012 July 16, Bob Herman, “Report: Surgery Prices Vary Wildly at California Hospitals”, in Becker's Hospital Review, ASC Communications...
Forms of chargemaster
| plural | chargemasters |
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Origin of chargemaster
From charge + master.
Questions about chargemaster
- What does chargemaster mean?
- Chargemaster means a comprehensive list maintained by a hospital of prices of goods and services it will bill to its patients and their respective health insurers.
- How do you use chargemaster in a sentence?
- The higher the chargemaster markup over cost, the greater the potential for profit.
- What part of speech is chargemaster?
- Chargemaster is a noun.
- What is the plural of chargemaster?
- The plural of chargemaster is chargemasters.
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