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 ...

For-profit hospitals, hospitals that serve a high number of uninsured patients and facilities with market power are more likely to rely on chargemasters as a reimbursement tool, a new Health Affairs ...

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 ...

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 ...

ICD-10 is coming, and it will affect virtually every department within a hospital or health system. A question many are asking is, “How exactly will it impact the revenue cycle?” At the 2012 AHIMA ...

Following the January certification of Trisus Chargemaster, The Craneware Group is now featured in a Microsoft success story—highlighting its leadership in trusted, AI-powered financial automation for ...

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 ...

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 ...

As of Jan. 1, in the name of transparency, the Trump administration required that all hospitals post their list prices online. But what is popping up on medical center websites is a dog’s breakfast of ...

Recently, there’s been a lot of noise around the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) price transparency mandate that’s left many healthcare professionals wondering how it might affect the ...

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 ...