Gavel to Gavel: Transparency in health care prices Philip D. Hixon Ashlyn M. Smith On May 3, Gov. Kevin Stitt signed into law the Transparency in Health Care Prices Act, which requires health care providers to make the prices for certain health care services available to the public. The act comes on the heels of growing public awareness and concern over what many consumers in Oklahoma have described as surprise medical bills. The act received widespread, bipartisan support in both chambers of the Legislature before it was approved. The act’s principal author, Sen. Adam Pugh, R-Edmond, described the act before its passage as an important first step “to get to a point in the marketplace where consumers have all the data, including pricing to make smart, informed decisions on where to seek medical treatments.” But, according to Pugh, “[w]e have a long way to go.”