Waqas Haque (1 Posts)Contributing Writer
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Waqas is a fourth-year medical student at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas class of 2021. In 2014, he graduated from University of Texas at Dallas with a Bachelor of Science in dconomics. Before medical school, he earned a master's degree in the business school at Cambridge University in England. Last year, Waqas took a leave of absence from medical school to pursue a Master of Public Health degree at Johns Hopkins as a Sommer Scholar. He enjoys basketball, reading one book a week, and exploring new coffeeshops. In the future, Waqas aspires to integrate his entrepreneurial and public health skills as a physician-innovator.
President Trump signed an executive order this past June that directs the Health and Human Services Department to develop a rule requiring hospitals to disclose online the prices that insurers and patients pay for common items and services. The rule also requires hospitals to reveal the amounts they are willing to accept in cash for an item or service. However, hospitals not complying only face a civil penalty of $300 a day, giving them latitude to effectively ignore the executive order.
Waqas Haque (1 Posts)Contributing Writer
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Waqas is a fourth-year medical student at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas class of 2021. In 2014, he graduated from University of Texas at Dallas with a Bachelor of Science in dconomics. Before medical school, he earned a master's degree in the business school at Cambridge University in England. Last year, Waqas took a leave of absence from medical school to pursue a Master of Public Health degree at Johns Hopkins as a Sommer Scholar. He enjoys basketball, reading one book a week, and exploring new coffeeshops. In the future, Waqas aspires to integrate his entrepreneurial and public health skills as a physician-innovator.
