Some Hospitals Charge Up to 10 Times More for Medical Scans Than Others, Study Finds
No surprises here but I imagine the magnitude of the price spreads seen here are probably the same in rad onc.
I hadn't seen before that fine for not releasing prices is going up from $109,500/year to $2,000,000/year, which is still a rounding error for the MDACC of the world.
https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.2021211948
Some Hospitals Charge Up to 10 Times More for Medical Scans Than Others, Study Finds
The report, based on once-secret pricing data and published in the journal Radiology, found that thousands of hospitals didn’t report their prices despite a new federal requirement.
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