Mehmet Oz on knowing care prices before receiving care: recommends

Dr. Mehmet Oz recommends that patients know what their care will cost before receiving it, and supports usable price-comparison tools tied to the finalized Transparency in Coverage rules. Oz said the rule rests on “a simple idea: People should know what their health insurance will cover and what they will need to pay before receiving medical care, not after the bill arrives.”

Oz’s stated reasoning, per the HHS/CMS materials: “Patients should not have to search across individual insurance-plan websites to estimate what a procedure will cost.” He has framed opaque hospital prices and surprise bills as “prices written in invisible ink,” arguing that consumer-facing cost tools give patients the information they need to shop for care.

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