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Is insurance the villain on this one of the hospital charging insurance 26k for an MRI?
by arealaccount 3y ago
Is insurance the villain on this one of the hospital charging insurance 26k for an MRI?
- alistairSH 3y agoPossibly all of the above. An MRI shouldn't cost $26k, even with contrast, and at a hospital. If this was non-emergency, it should have been pre-cleared with insurance per their policy.
- lostlogin 3y agoI’m an MR tech. You could fly to New Zealand, have a scan on a state of the art machine, get a good report, have 3 weeks holiday and fly home. You’d have heaps of money left over.
- triceratops 3y ago$26k for a contrast MRI is outrageous. An MRI machine costs $1m at the high end. If you figure the procedure takes 2h and the machine runs 22h/day - which they tend to do - they're making over a quarter of the cost of the machine daily. It doesn't cost anywhere near that to run it; even if we're talking maintenance, salaries, and utilities.