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Re:Most hospitals aren't complying with price transparency rule by Tade0 on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @12:29PM (#27517777)
I can get an whole body MRI in Poland for ~$250 via a private healthcare provider and wait less than a week for it at that.

Why is an MRI anywhere in the world $1500, or $3500 for that matter?

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Re:Most hospitals aren't complying with price transparency rule by vidarh on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @02:09PM (#27519231)
Similar price in London. One provider I checked indicated $560 for their "platinum service" which included lots of mostly pointless extras, but $280 for the basic service.

Private hospitals in London largely live off a split of offering cheap convenience or extracting money from foreign patients, but there are so many of them fighting for a small pool of patients given most people just go to the NHS that they have to compete hard.

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