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Charge governance for health systems

Know every price. Control every change.

One clear view of charge prices, effective dates, scheduled increases, approvals, and audit history—across your health system.

Price change · under review

CDM 3520-0145 · unit each

CT head without contrast

Corporate price today

$1,842.00

Effective Jan 1, 2026

Scheduled +3.0%

$1,897.26

Effective Jan 1, 2027

Approval trail

  1. ✓ Submitted · CDM manager · Oct 9
  2. ✓ Revenue integrity · approved Oct 10
  3. ○ Finance · waiting on CFO delegate

The problem

Every facility has a price. Who controls the change?

  1. 01

    Prices drift without a dated record.

    Increases are keyed by hand, effective dates overlap or leave gaps, and nobody can show what a charge cost on a given date, or who approved it.

  2. 02

    Facilities diverge quietly.

    Corporate standards meet local overrides, and a large difference in price for the same CT head scan can sit unnoticed until a payer or patient asks.

  3. 03

    Approvals live in email.

    Outside a governed path, it's hard to prove who requested, reviewed and approved each change, and when it took effect.

Price tracking

Every price, in perspective.

Effective-dated prices by facility and unit of measure. See what a charge costs today, what it cost on any past date, and what it will cost after each scheduled increase. Overlapping dates are blocked and gaps are caught before approval.

Price historyCT head without contrast · CDM 3520-0145

Kestrel Bay Health

Revenue code
0351
Unit
each
CPT/HCPCS
70450
Price as of today
$1,842.00
Billing system
Published · accepted
  • Scheduled$1,897.26

    Jan 1, 2027 → Open · +3.0%

    Awaiting finance. Revenue integrity ✓ · Finance pending

  • Current$1,842.00

    Jan 1, 2026 → Dec 31, 2026 · +3.5%

    Finance reviewer

  • Historical$1,779.71

    Jul 1, 2025 → Dec 31, 2025 · +2.0%

    Finance reviewer

  • Historical$1,744.81

    Jan 1, 2025 → Jun 30, 2025 · Baseline

    Initial load, validated

Every row links to its request, approvals and hash-chained evidence. Export: price history CSV · gross-charge export.

Facility comparison

One health system. A clearer picture.

  • Every facility's price for a charge, side by side.
  • Variance flags above a threshold your finance team sets.
  • Gross-charge impact per unit for every outlier.
  • Dismissals need an audited reason.

Facility price comparisonCT head without contrast · unit each

Threshold ±15% from median

Min
$1,842.00
Median
$1,842.00
Max
$2,310.00
Spread
25.4%
  • Kestrel Bay Medical Center

    $1,842.00 · Corporate0.0%

    Impact per unit: $0.00

  • Cedar Reach Medical Center

    $1,842.00 · Corporate0.0%

    Impact per unit: $0.00

  • Kestrel Bay Community Hospital

    Variance

    $2,310.00 · Facility override+25.4%

    Impact per unit: +$468.00

Vellum's facility comparison flags a 25.4% spread on a CT head scan.

Approvals

Built for deliberate decisions.

Ordered review steps
Coding review, then finance, at whichever step your policy requires.
Field-level control
Each step controls which fields a reviewer can change, enforced on the server.
Nothing changes early
A change reaches the chargemaster only after final approval.
A change request awaiting coding review, with its effective date, facility and a field-by-field before and after

Evidence

Proof is part of the process.

Every governed event is hash-chained. Auditors download a request's proof as JSON, CSV or a PDF package, with hash-verifiable manifests.

Hash-chain verification in Vellum, showing the chain as valid
Request evidence with JSON, CSV and PDF proof exports and their payload hashes

Who it's for

For the people who own the price.

CFO and finance

See every scheduled increase and its projected gross-charge impact before approval. Finance signs off at the step your policy sets, and nothing changes until final approval.

Revenue integrity

Review field-by-field changes with recorded reasons, catch facility price outliers with variance flags, and trace any price back to its request and evidence.

Chargemaster manager

Add, update, reprice and inactivate charges through one governed path, schedule future increases with effective dates, and run the annual update as one campaign.

Capabilities described here, including price tracking, facility price comparison and variance flags, are delivered and configured for your health system, with scope set out in your SOW.

Bring clarity to every charge.

A working session on your chargemaster: prices, effective dates, approvals and evidence for your facilities.