Mailbag: Brett Davis Writes: On Health Care Transparency; Costs

(Ed.note: This is a portion of an email update of Rep. Brett Davis. It touches on an issue discussed previously in the blog.)


Another important way to keep health care costs down is increased health care transparency through full disclosure of the cost of procedures and treatments. Under current law, a patient who wants to know how much a procedure costs has no ability to ask or receive an answer. We passed Assembly Bill 872 in the Assembly requiring health care providers to present a cost estimate to any patient that requests it. Full disclosure of health care costs will enable patients and families to make better informed decisions and promote competition between health care providers, helping to drive down costs.