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Costs & pricing basis
Gross charge (chargemaster price)
The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this.
Example
A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.