Jeanne Pinder
We collect and display cash or self-pay prices — what you would pay without insurance — for about 30-35 common, “shoppable” procedures. Why? To show the range of pricing for simple medical items, which can more or less be compared — as apples to apples. If you see that an MRI can cost $300 one […]
Peggy Zuckerman
(Updated 2022) We’re often asked over here at ClearHealthCosts what a price means in health care. Sometimes it means next to nothing, as this piece written by our friend Peggy Zuckerman about the cost of a CT scan tells us. * * * * * * Which is better — a CT scan for $930 or […]
Elizabeth Celms
(Updated 2022) MRI prices are really complicated: Different facilities, different machines, different parts of the body. Yikes. So how do you find an affordable MRI? Different facilities — from the hospital, to the radiology center, to the doctor’s office — charge vastly different prices for MRIs. For example, the cash price of a lumbar spine (lower […]
