Patients struggle to understand healthcare costs, but the process of setting costs and charging for services rendered can be complex enough to confound industry experts. The chargemaster is at the ...

The hospital chargemaster assumed a new role in 2013 – that of a villain in the story of the already high and growing costs of healthcare. But it may be a case of miscasting. In March, Time magazine ...

Chargemaster prices for generic drugs in hospitals can be 6,000 percent higher than the price of the same drug in a pharmacy, according to an analysis by GoodRx, a pharmacy discount company. GoodRx ...

Days after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released hospital chargemaster data for dozens of the most common procedures peformed, providers are mulling whether to cut their prices or do ...

The typical hospital chargemaster, also called a CDM, tracks 15,000 line items. Each item is assigned a code representing a different service, procedure or product used in providing care to patients.

Hospital chargemasters, internal price lists, are used as a basis to extract far higher payments from uninsured patients than those who have coverage, although hospitals dismiss their significance ...

Dave Danforth is on assignment this week, so we are running one of his past columns. This one appeared on Jan. 13, 2019. If you ever wanted to write a novel featuring wrenching scenes of screeching, ...

The now transparent federal database of hospital prices could motivate hospital financial assistance offices to write more flexible policies for collecting from uninsured, underinsured, and Medicare ...

(Reuters Health) - U.S. hospitals' sticker prices for two common sources of surprise medical bills have climbed far faster than economic inflation, a new study suggests. Researchers focused on ...

Since the start of the new year, Aspen Valley Hospital has been sharing its complete price list, containing more than 12,000 items, on its website, aspenvalleyhospital.org. The online posting of what ...

Prices hospitals charge for their services will all go online Jan. 1 under a new federal requirement, but patient advocates say the realities of medical-industry pricing will make it difficult for ...