It always confused me. A hospital has an MRI or some other machine, and you hear they try to use it as little as possible to cut costs, because it costs them this or that amount per usage. But why would that be if they own it?
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Something the others comments missed, sometimes hospitals don’t actually own the machine. Especially not smaller hospitals or clinics. Instead, often, there will be a specialized company that’s own all the machines for a specific task. And then they will rent them out to hospitals or clinics for 1-2 days a month.
This is beneficial for the hospital because they may only have a few patients that need a certain machine per month. By only renting it a few days a months, they don’t have to operate, maintain, replace, or be liable for the machine.
A lot of the time these companies also send technicians to operate the machine.
Source: A good friend of mine operates one of such companies.
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