How come medical equipments cost so much for an hospital?

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I realize that there are huge costs for those companies that manufacture medical equipment in the first place, especially in R&D activities. However, what determines a different price between, for example, an MRI machine (that can cost $3 million) and a Mammography machine (around $50k)?

These prices come from a quick Google search and may, therefore, have to be contextualized.

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It is a bit like why do equipment used in space cost so much they are specialised and have to work to higher tolerances than normal equipment because there are major problems if they malfunction.

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