Also, if you pay a bajillion dollars for an MRI machine, then you amortize the cost over the number of times it's used. The times you use it, it's just the cost of electricity. So there's an incentive to use it a lot.
That still doesn't explain being charged several thousand for an x-ray, though. That's 150 year old technology, this isn't like Dr. House and a team of neurosurgeons at work here.
> That still doesn't explain being charged several thousand for an x-ray, though
If you want to try and understand this stuff, you have to abandon the idea of the charged cost of a procedure relating to how much it cost to provide. It's truly depressing.
That still doesn't explain being charged several thousand for an x-ray, though. That's 150 year old technology, this isn't like Dr. House and a team of neurosurgeons at work here.