title: Lifting the veil.
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.
authors.forename: Amy Lynn
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Sorrel
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D030881:Disclosure / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006801:Humans; D013781:Texas