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True, but this isn't a medical procedure. There are no surgeons etc involved. It amounts to the time for one mri tech to put the person in the machine, push th
by iancmceachern 3y ago
True, but this isn't a medical procedure. There are no surgeons etc involved. It amounts to the time for one mri tech to put the person in the machine, push the button. There is some expense in the reading and interpretation of the scans, but it's nowhere near the labor and other costs of surgury or endoscopy.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> this isn't a medical procedure MRI techs and radiologists aren’t cheap.
- thelittleone 3y agoPerhaps AI can optimize MRI operating costs. But the question then is whether those savings would be passed on to the patient or accrued by the manufacturer and hospital as extra margin.
- iancmceachern 3y agoWe all know how that's going to play out
- fallingknife 3y agoOnly needed 1 tech for my MRI which lasted well under an hour. They may be expensive, but they don't get $100 an hour, so hard to believe that is a cost driver for a scan that costs over $1000.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoThe radiologist is a specialized medical doctor. They are not cheap. My neighbor is one, and she makes a considerable amount of money. They’re not technicians, and good ones command more than most surgeons.
- iancmceachern 3y agoYes, but they can sit at a screen and analyze this stuff all day. It's not like a surgury where you have 3 or 4 OR staff and dozens of support staff to account for who all have to be on site and scrubbed in, etc.
- squeaky-clean 3y agoThere's a reason the body scan is $2500 and a simple surgery with anaesthesia starts at like $15000 before insurance.
- iancmceachern 3y agoExactly the point I've been trying to make, thank you
- squeaky-clean 3y agoThat still doesn't mean radiologists aren't the main cost of a scan. Just that it doesn't cost as much as a team of 10.
- iancmceachern 3y agoTrue, was never trying to make the first point
- squeaky-clean 3y agoThat's the point of the comment thread were in. If you weren't trying to make that point, I don't get the relevance to the thread.
- squeaky-clean 3y ago1 tech to take the scan. And another one to actually examine/interpret the scan. Which for a full-body scan with no symptoms or specific areas to examine takes a lot longer than just taking the scan. > They may be expensive, but they don't get $100 an hour Radiology is one of the highest paying medical specialties. My cousin is one of the radiologists who interprets scans. He makes about $500k per year. Searching online, about $170/hr is average. https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Radiologist-Salary-per-Hour https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Radiologist-Salary-per... https://www.salary.com/research/salary/alternate/radiologist-hourly-wages https://www.salary.com/research/salary/alternate/radiologist...
- iancmceachern 3y agoYeah but a scan takes one radiology tech 30 mins, then the radiologist does the analysis, again not hours. In surgical procedures all those people have to physically be there for hours
- squeaky-clean 3y agoYes, a properly done full body scan interpretation will take hours. It's about 30 minutes to analyze a scan of just someone's kidneys when there's already symptoms and doctor's note on what to look for. The longest part is often just the paperwork and noting what was not seen.