Rep. Mike Winder (R)

HB 443 (Health Care Cost Transparency)

Libertas Institute supports this bill.

This bill requires hospitals to provide a complete list of itemized charges to a patient and also requires health care facilities to disclose up-front pricing for their most common procedures.

Libertas supports this bill. Informed consumerism requires that individuals have knowledge about the prices involved in the decisions they make. This bill is a start of a much-needed conversation about price transparency in the health care system.