>Just for clarity, you're not just paying to have an X-Ray taken, you're also paying for an opinion from a radiologist (MD specializing in interpretation of xrays and scans) plus the power to sue him/her for millions if things turn sour and you can find a mercenary colleague to disagree with the opinion. Not that this fully justifies the $1.5K price for a plain xray- which is actually cheap for the US, fwiw.
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So, therefore we should just pay the $1,500 and move on?
Something is rotten.

> I'm participating in a study at non-US St Elsewhere that concludes that EHR means one fewer patient can be seen per clinic session. Sometimes common sense causes more harm than it helps.

After leaving the corporate world, one of the first projects I undertook was inventorying replacement appliances at a huge apartment complex in NYC. One inventory system after another had failed.
I was told that the people who would be using the system were building superintendents.
I was also told that the purpose of the system was to reduce theft of appliances by building superintendents.
I decided to pass on that project.