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Latest revision as of 21:09, 5 March 2013 [edit] English Wikipedia chargemaster (plural chargemasters) - a comprehensive listing of items billable to a hospital patient or a patient's health insurance provider, often with highly inflated prices at several times that of actual costs to the hospital.
- The patient faced bankruptcy because she couldn't pay off the hundreds of thousands of dollars accrued from her chargemaster derived hospital bill.
- 2007, James C. Robinson, "Price Transparency Begins at Home"[1], Frontiers of Health Services Management, volume 23, number 3, American College of Healthcare Executives, pages 25-28:
- 2013 February 20, Brill, Steven, "Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us", Time, Time Warner, retrieved on March 4, 2013:
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