Lifting the veil

Tex Med. 2014 Jul 1;110(7):37-41.

Abstract

As governments and employers look for ways to curb growing health care costs, and as patients bear a higher share of their medical bills, policymakers in Texas and beyond increasingly target physicians in their efforts to unveil health care prices. They couch such "price transparency" as a way to help patients make more informed health care decisions. But Texas Medical Association's Board of Trustees member Gary W. Floyd, MD, of Fort Worth, cautions that for a complex health care payment system, coupled with individual patients' complex needs, coming up with a so-called "sticker price" is not as simple as it seems.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Delivery of Health Care / economics*
  • Delivery of Health Care / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Disclosure / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Health Care Costs / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Health Expenditures
  • Humans
  • Texas