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When I had an MRI on my knee in 2009, my out of pocket expense was $1500. A few hundred dollars seems cheap to me. Just the doctor visit to get the MRI ordered
by blackguardx 10y ago
When I had an MRI on my knee in 2009, my out of pocket expense was $1500. A few hundred dollars seems cheap to me. Just the doctor visit to get the MRI ordered cost me $200.
- kwhitefoot 10y agoThat price really doesn't make a lot of sense. I find it hard to believe that it bears any meaningful relationship to the cost of the MRI machine or the cost of running it or analysing the results. After all such an MRI takes only a few minutes of machine time. Let's be generous and say it takes an hour and that it is in use for only 10 hours a day 20 days a month. That means it turns over 300kUSD per month, 3.6MUSD per year. You can probably buy one that would do the job for less than 500kUSD; see http://info.blockimaging.com/bid/92623/MRI-Machine-Cost-and-Price-Guide http://info.blockimaging.com/bid/92623/MRI-Machine-Cost-and-....
- makomk 10y agoI think insurers have caught on nowadays, but MRI scanning used to be a major profit center for US hospitals because the cost of the machines had gone down but their prices kept going up. Probably still is if you have to pay list price.