Chargemaster.
The hospital's sticker price.
The hospital's internal list of standard prices for every service. Mostly arbitrary. Almost no one pays the chargemaster — insurers negotiate it down dramatically, and uninsured patients usually qualify for self-pay discounts. Sometimes called the 'gross charge.'
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