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A 1.5T torso MRI costs me $260 US dollars in Mexico without insurance and without prescription, radiologist interpretation included. Salaries are higher in the
by copperx 7y ago
A 1.5T torso MRI costs me $260 US dollars in Mexico without insurance and without prescription, radiologist interpretation included. Salaries are higher in the US and I assume the bleeding edge tech is multiple millions of dollars. But even with those considerations, I don't think $20K is justified.
Sure, they don't have fast 3T machines, but still are useful for DIY cancer screening for the paranoid like me (for those that aren't familiar with imaging tech, MRIs don't use radiation).
- omgtehlion 7y agoIn Russia torso MRI costs around $200-$300 too. Smaller exams on outdated machines could be found for as cheap as $80. It is solely US thing that medical procedures have astronomical cost.
- jaclaz 7y agoIn Italy, my mother did a few months ago a contrast MRI (spine), directly paid in a private laboratory (outside the national service) for around 300 Euro. Which makes sense if the machine cost is around 1,000,000, appointments were every half an hour, so, let's say they make 15 scans per day at 300 each, it makes 4500 Euro/day by 220 days/year that is around one million Euro/year. You take out of it - say: 250,000 Euro for the machine (for 5 years) 250,000 Euro for personnel 250,000 Euro for maintenance, power, other costs 50,000 Euro for something else I don't know And you are still ahead for 200,000 Euro/year, i.e. roughly 20% of your investment.