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chargemaster

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  1. 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.”

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