I received notice of the claim to my insurance company for 2260.00
>for the MRI. That was the use of the equipment only and not the technicians and the specialist
>reading the results. I was billed 158.00 For the specialist, he billed the insurance company
>578.00 and me 32.05. If I did not have insurance they would pass the bill on to a creditor
>in 90 days. If I was an illegal immigrant than there is no hope or means of collecting from
>me so it would be written off. There are a lot of bankruptcies here due to medical bills...

And this is a big difference with the 850 Euros for a MRI up here. It is much and much cheaper. I had several ones of those and it of course was covered by the insurance. Now wonder why health care is so expensive in the US, and wonder where all that money going to. The treatment I went through is about three times as expensive in the US, with absolutely no difference in quality.