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Thomas Dworetzky, Contributing Reporter | May 11, 2018
As a poignant example of this difference in cost, a lower back MR exam without contrast would cost $172 at Inspira Women’s Imaging Center in New Jersey, but $7,646 at Torrance Memorial Medical Center in California, according to Clear Health Costs
A study recently published in
JAMA provides some
staggering insight into how U.S. health care spending compares to ten other high-income countries – and medical imaging stands out as an area of markedly disproportionate costs.
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Relative to population, the U.S. had the third-most CT scanners and second most MR scanners, (Japan had the highest ratio of each). The lowest per capita rate for both MR units and CT scanners was in the U.K.
The U.S. performed the second highest rate of MR scans and the highest of CT scans per capita, and the costs associated with these scans were significantly higher.
The average payment for a CT scan in the U.S. was $896. That, compared with $97 in Canada, $279 in the Netherlands, $432 in Switzerland, and $500 in Australia in 2013. Similarly, the average payment for an MR in the U.S. was $1145 compared with $350 in Australia and $461 in the Netherlands.
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