CaspianXIWhat's a company secret you can share now that you no longer work there?
FuckOffThe people who negotiate your medical claims make more money on the settlement commissions than the doctors even make from their procedures.
And there’s like 25-40 people total who handle the claims for every single health insurance company.
The US healthcare and insurance industry is such a scam. There are so many people making so much money off denying claims and overcharging for procedures.
Thats what happens when you dont regulate anything, evil people will just try to hurt the good people just for money
Healthcare is one of the heaviest regulated industries in the US. Less regulations would be better-you could go to a store, see a menu board and order an MRI with upfront pricing.
MRIs are always going to be expensive. Just how it is.
Anything with exotic physics and high precision requirements (MR, CT, PET, Nuclear Medicine) is already expensive just in raw material… There’s also shipping costs. All of the engineering, R&D, that goes into it. Safety and regulatory testing.
Actually, most medical devices have razor thin profit margins. All of the money is made back through service contacts. Because adding another million to recoup engineering costs would make an MRI even more inaccessible.
Lot of efforts by the big players to make things cheaper and easier to produce. But MRI for example will require a LOT of helium until we get better superconductors. Anything radiation will always require a lot of lead. Anything nuclear will require specialized isotopes and detectors.
Machines will never be cheap. But the insurance companies and the US healthcare model sure as hell make things worse.