The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service, through its Price Transparency Rule, requires that hospitals make public standard charges.
The prices for services are based on typical visits, and not intended to be representative of the services that may be required for every visit. The actual price a patient is responsible for may be higher or lower based on the actual services provided.
This is a machine-readable file that contains columns for the skilled nursing facility and hospital’s gross charges, payer-specific negotiated charges, discounted cash prices (if any), for all items and services provided by both entities. Currently, they do not offer discounted cash prices to third party payors.
The Charge Description Master (CDM), or Chargemaster, is a listing of items that could be billed to a patient, payer, or health care provider. The most current Chargemaster can be found on the State of California Department of HealthCare Access and Information (HCAI) website.
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