Have you ever wondered what it costs to keep a person alive when they are on the brink of death? Thanks to a post by a suicide survivor who started a rash of posts concerning hospital costs for the mortally challenged we know that the hospital bill for suicide management can be from 10K to 100K. Oliver Jordan clocked up 25,000 likes and hundreds of responses to his post with some people saying it cost them 10K to 20K for a US emergency room visit. Once a patient enters a hospital they can racked many charges often without realising what the end bill will be.
In memory of MDC.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @08:50PM (6 children)
Even including the liquid helium expenses, they are only a couple grand in the 2nd-3rd world, as opposed to the 10-50k they are here. And the turnaround is generally much faster too, since they are running them constantly rather than with a lot of idle time like here in the states.
(Score: 4, Informative) by pTamok on Friday April 19 2019, @09:01PM (4 children)
Cost of Private (i.e. not subsidised by the state) MRI scans in the UK.
https://www.privatehealth.co.uk/conditions-and-treatments/mri-scan/costs/ [privatehealth.co.uk]
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Friday April 19 2019, @10:00PM (2 children)
MRI imaging is a different critter than ultrasound .
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @10:05PM
Not more expensive though is it?
(Score: 1, Informative) by pTamok on Friday April 19 2019, @10:21PM
Cost of Private (i.e. not subsidised by the state) ultrasound scans in the UK.
https://www.privatehealth.co.uk/conditions-and-treatments/ultrasound/costs/ [privatehealth.co.uk]
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday April 19 2019, @10:09PM
I knew it! UK is in the 2nd-3rd world. (large grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Saturday April 20 2019, @04:22AM
For a CT scan the hospital list price: $9107. Medicare price: $189.
For a 1L bag of saline solution the hospital charges $306, and Medicare charges a bit less than $2.