Chargemaster vs Multipayer - What's the difference?
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(US, healthcare) a comprehensive list maintained by a hospital of prices of goods and services it will bill to its patients and their respective health insurers.
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(chiefly, healthcare) Involving payment by more than one party.
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Chargemaster is a see also of multipayer.
As a noun chargemaster
is (us|healthcare) a comprehensive list maintained by a hospital of prices of goods and services it will bill to its patients and their respective health insurers.As an adjective multipayer is
(chiefly|healthcare) involving payment by more than one party.chargemaster
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(Chargemaster) (Chargemaster)Noun
(en noun)- 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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Adjective
(-)- Single-payer systems tend to rely heavily on general tax revenues, whereas multipayer systems generally employ payroll-tax financing.