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dixiegrrrrl

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2. Mr. Dixie had a brain MRI following a stroke last week.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Jun 8, 2015, 08:13 PM

Jun 2015

Knowing full well about the vagaries of medical charges, I called our local testing clinic to ask the price.
$1500.00.
Above the national average of 950.00.
We only pay 20% co-pay, thanks to Medicare.

But..I found online listings for brain MRI prices all over the country, and guess what?
VERY wide range.
One place near Tacoma Wa charges 250.00

A hospital in SF charges...$5,000.

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Many U.S. hospitals mark up prices 1,000 percent: study [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2015 OP

He's WRONG. They are NOTirrelevant. Someone DOES pay those prices FlatBaroque Jun 2015 #1

Mr. Dixie had a brain MRI following a stroke last week. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2015 #2

That is one reform Republicans seem to like that we should push: transparent pricing Recursion Jun 2015 #5

I just had a blood panel done Heddi Jun 2015 #3

You probably know this but a lot of people don't - your hospital may be in-network progree Jun 2015 #4

I really wish price transparency had been a part of ACA. It's a very bipartisan idea Recursion Jun 2015 #6