The Health Care Price Transparency Promotion Act directs the states to establish and maintain laws requiring disclosure of information on hospital charges. Additionally, the bill requires hospitals and health plans to make such information available to the public, and to provide individuals with information about estimated out-of-pocket costs for health care services. Read more

Dr. Burgess discusses revelations from drug companies' newly-released emails with top White House officials in health care negotiations that were not transparent, as promised. Read more

On May 18, 2012, Dr. Burgess and seven Members of Congress sent a letter to the Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services regarding a new implemented rule called Transparency Reports and Reporting of Physician Ownership or Investment Interests. Read more

The agency that runs Medicare and Medicaid has no plans for complying with Supreme Court directives that would change the President's health care law. Read more

On May 4, 2012 Dr. Burgess wrote a letter signed by every member of the Texas House Delegation to Acting Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Marilyn Tavenner to communicate the potential for disruption in the payment of providers in Texas under the Medicare program. Read more

On May 4, 2012, Dr. Burgess and nine Members of Congress sent a letter to Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, regarding the revised Durable Medical Equipment and its minimum lifetime requirement. Read more

President Obama repeatedly promised lower health care costs and insurance premiums. Now, the analysis of businesses executives from his own Council on Jobs and Competitiveness reflect deep worries about the costly job-crippling impacts and threats to employee-provided insurance from the President’s signature health care law. Read more

This week, Dr. Burgess comments on documents produced by the members of the President's own Council on Jobs and Competitiveness that reveal what many working Americans have already been concerned about. Read more

WFAA TV updates the inspiring story of two North Texas residents connected by one little boy: the boy's father who needed a kidney and the boy's teacher whose caring gift has taught a lifelong lesson. Now, in the months after the transplant, the father now worries about the cost of medications to keep the new kidney functioning, and Congressman Michael Burgess pushes for a practical, compassionate way to help all kidney transplant patients. Read more

On April 26, 2012, Dr. Burgess and 267 Members of Congress sent a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi regarding support for the Special Diabetes Program. Read more