| chargemaster Mar 5th 2013, 21:09 | | | | Line 7: | Line 7: | | | #:''The patient faced [[bankruptcy]] because she couldn't pay off the hundreds of thousands of dollars accrued from her '''chargemaster''' derived hospital bill.'' | | #:''The patient faced [[bankruptcy]] because she couldn't pay off the hundreds of thousands of dollars accrued from her '''chargemaster''' derived hospital bill.'' | | | #*{{quote-journal|first=James C.|last=Robinson|url=http://bcht.berkeley.edu/docs/Price-Transparency-Begins-at-Home.pdf|title=Price Transparency Begins at Home|pages=25-28|volume=23|issue=3|journal=Frontiers of Health Services Management|publisher=[[w:American College of Healthcare Executives|American College of Healthcare Executives]]|year=2007|quote=Much ink has been spilt bemoaning that incomprehensible foundation of hospital cost accounting and prices, the redoubtable '''chargemaster'''.}} | | #*{{quote-journal|first=James C.|last=Robinson|url=http://bcht.berkeley.edu/docs/Price-Transparency-Begins-at-Home.pdf|title=Price Transparency Begins at Home|pages=25-28|volume=23|issue=3|journal=Frontiers of Health Services Management|publisher=[[w:American College of Healthcare Executives|American College of Healthcare Executives]]|year=2007|quote=Much ink has been spilt bemoaning that incomprehensible foundation of hospital cost accounting and prices, the redoubtable '''chargemaster'''.}} | | | + | #*{{quote-news |url=http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/20/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-killing-us/print/ |title=Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us |first=Steven |last=Brill |authorlink=w:Steven Brill|work=[[w:Time (magazine)|Time]] |publisher=[[w:Time Warner|Time Warner]]|date=February 20, 2013|accessdate=March 4, 2013|quote=However, I quickly found that although every hospital has a '''chargemaster''', officials treat it as if it were an eccentric uncle living in the attic. Whenever I asked, they deflected all conversation away from it. They even argued that it is irrelevant. I soon found that they have good reason to hope that outsiders pay no attention to the '''chargemaster''' or the process that produces it. For there seems to be no process, no rationale, behind the core document that is the basis for hundreds of billions of dollars in health care bills.}} | | | | | | | | [[Category:Healthcare]] | | [[Category:Healthcare]] |
Revision as of 21:09, 5 March 2013 English Noun 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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