Price Transparency in the Electronic Health Record —Reply

In Reply Regarding our Viewpoint on price transparency in EHRs, Dr Cho and colleagues suggest that clinicians are not adequately trained to discuss costs with patients. While we agree that clinicians are not traditionally trained to discuss costs with patients, these discussions are already occurring. Many patients face significant financial burdens affecting access; transparency merely provides information to help make decisions currently made in a vacuum.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research