FYI, in the US, the thousands-of-dollars list price for an MRI turns in to a few hundred if Medicare or an insurance company are paying (and no, I'm not talking about what the patient gets charged out of pocket--the actual total amount charged is reduced that much).
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FYI, in the US, the thousands-of-dollars list price for an MRI turns in to a few hundred if Medicare or an insurance company are paying (and no, I'm not talking about what the patient gets charged out of pocket--the actual total amount charged is reduced that much).
It also turns into a few hundred if you tell them you can't pay thousands of dollars, but are willing to take any free slot.
MRI is a classic example of high fixed cost, negligible variable cost. Once they buy the machine, it pays to make sure it never runs idle.
Makes me glad I live in Canada. I've had several CT scans since 2007 as part of some post-cancer monitoring, and I haven't had to pay a cent.