DOCTORS in private practice agree that patients should be given the knowledge to make informed choices when it comes to picking a doctor for medical treatment.

But putting a price value on the treatment is not an issue with patients going to private clinics. Rather, it is the doctor's reputation.

They were responding to the Health Ministry's push to have private hospitals and doctors make their charges publicly known.

Its minister, Mr Khaw Boon Wan, announced that this effort will be pushed aggressively through legislation later in the year.

Dr Lee Hong Huei, deputy president of the Singapore Operations Division at ParkwayHealth and CEO of Gleneagles Hospital, said it is not just bill size but clinical outcomes that helps patients choose.

Read the full story in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.