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re: Women gets full body MRI.. Discovers she has non-ruptured aneurysm
Posted on 3/20/25 at 9:30 am to MrSpock
Posted on 3/20/25 at 9:30 am to MrSpock
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Whole body MRI is not really that good as a screening exam.
Why wouldn't it be? For a lot of diagnosis, they will often end up requesting a MRI; so why would the whole body MRI be less effective?
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Posted on 3/20/25 at 9:38 am to tiggerthetooth
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Is there something about this company that reduces the cost or improves on existing technology? $2500 is very expensive.
Some of our plaintiff attorneys in the OT can probably give some insight as to what individual mri scans cost after post- settlement reductions or health insurance contractual reductions. If a cervical spine mri costs $500, for example, a whole body mri at $2500 doesn’t seem exorbitant.
Posted on 3/20/25 at 9:40 am to tiggerthetooth
$2500 isn’t that expensive as a one time deal, especially if you have HSA.
If you have one every year or 2 that’s a different story.
If you have one every year or 2 that’s a different story.
Posted on 3/20/25 at 9:45 am to Jack Bauers HnK
Yeah $2,500 for a one-time procedure that could possibly save your life isn't that excorbiant to me.
Posted on 3/20/25 at 9:46 am to CatfishJohn
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Annual full body MRIs for anyone over 40 is going to become the norm eventually.
It actually should be. I've mentioned to my doctor if I should have some kind of full body scan. As I've aged, I have issues everywhere
But he hasn't thought it necessary, but my dad died of a heart attack at my current age, so I do wonder how many of us have an issue that could be found and fixed before it takes our life. Posted on 3/20/25 at 9:47 am to MrSpock
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Whole body MRI is not really that good as a screening exam.
And you know this how?
Posted on 3/20/25 at 9:49 am to kywildcatfanone
I lost an aunt(dad's sister) at 48 to an aneurysm and an uncle( dad's brother) at 51 to a blood clot that traveled up from his leg so I'm absolutely considering it. And my dad passed at 61 after two bouts of cancer and just due to his body being worn out from other shite.
The cost is the only thing that gives me pause. Although like I said earlier,.$2,500 for a one-time procedure isn't bad.
The cost is the only thing that gives me pause. Although like I said earlier,.$2,500 for a one-time procedure isn't bad.
This post was edited on 3/20/25 at 9:51 am
Posted on 3/20/25 at 9:49 am to SteelerBravesDawg
My wife had a brain aneurysm in 2013. It was not ruptured and they found it doing a MRI for her migraines. It wasn’t the cause but glad they did it. It was repaired and she’s been good ever since. That was a tough few weeks between discovering it and getting it fixed. Every headache was wondering if it was rupturing.
Posted on 3/20/25 at 9:51 am to pdubya76
Glad she's doing good now, brother.
That's scary as shite.
That's scary as shite.
Posted on 3/20/25 at 9:52 am to SteelerBravesDawg
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$2,500 for a one-time procedure isn't bad.
I think less than 10% of Americans are actually willing to pay that much for something that isn't considered necessary.
There are many affordable and reasonable healthcare preventative checks that Americans still avoid.
Posted on 3/20/25 at 9:54 am to tiggerthetooth
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I think less than 10% of Americans are actually willing to pay that much for something that isn't considered necessary.
I agree with others on here who have said that it's going to become a routine procedure and thus, covered under general health/maintenance and the cost will come down.
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There are many affordable and reasonable healthcare preventative checks that Americans still avoid.
Agreed
Posted on 3/20/25 at 9:54 am to SteelerBravesDawg
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.$2,500 for a one-time procedure isn't bad.
I bet you can negotiate that even. There is an MRI place here in town that a friend of mine said Insurance was going to charge $700, but he paid cash, and got the same MRI for $250.
Posted on 3/20/25 at 9:59 am to CatfishJohn
quote:United Healthcare will require 4593858 preauthorizations and you'll need to go through 3 levels of denial appeals before they overturn and pay for it.
It’ll go down substantially with new technology and insurers will start covering it.
Posted on 3/20/25 at 10:02 am to kywildcatfanone
MRIs are often cheaper if you pay cash and go to an Imaging Center (Not a Hospital). Just gotta get in contact with the Manager of the place and negotiate a price.
Posted on 3/20/25 at 10:04 am to SteelerBravesDawg
My SIL husband died from a stomach aneurysm very quickly.
Posted on 3/20/25 at 10:07 am to SteelerBravesDawg
Mate i encourage you and everyone else who's taken an mRNA-platform COVID 19 jab to have a full-body aneurysm scan. It's vitally important.
Posted on 3/20/25 at 10:18 am to Weekend Warrior79
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Why wouldn't it be? For a lot of diagnosis, they will often end up requesting a MRI; so why would the whole body MRI be less effective?
Comparatively, MRI has terrible spatial resolution compared to CT and Radiography. So when looking for tiny things such as lung nodules, small pancreatic lesions, and small aneurysms you want the best spatial resolution. For example, we don't currently use MRI for lung cancer screening, we use CT which has much better detection for small lesions.
MRI is great contrast resolution (telling the difference between different tissues) for characterizing things and seeing the spread and extent of something initially seen other imaging modalities.
Furthermore, to acquire a whole-body MRI you have to crank up the field of view on the scanner which further degrades the spatial resolution of the scan. And forget about finding anything useful in anything that moves, the bowel, the lungs etc., or anything really small like small pancreatic lesions. Also, these companies aren't using contrast which lessens the sensitivity of the scans and they are relying on a concept called diffusion weighting to find these tumors. The problem is not all things that restrict diffusion are tumors and not all tumors restrict diffusion.
Posted on 3/20/25 at 10:20 am to Sampson
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$2500 a pop without insurance.
Insurance is almost never going to cover a full body MRI for general checkup
So its something someone would have to come out of pocket for
Posted on 3/20/25 at 10:20 am to SteelerBravesDawg
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And you know this how?
I'm a Radiologist and read the things.
Posted on 3/20/25 at 10:22 am to SteelerBravesDawg
There are MRI facilities that will do an MRI, with a review, for a surprisingly low amount if you pay cash.
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