Why do they say “it costs the hospital to use the machine” when the hospital owns the machine?

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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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Anonymous 0 Comments

They often lease some machines and are charged per procedure.
Source: worked for Olympus endoscopy lease program

Anonymous 0 Comments

They’re making **** up to take your money.

“The precious data. The numbers. The engineers. Time consumption.”

They’re making **** up to take your money.

It’s an exploit in the Modern Era. Use fancy technologicial, upper class terminology, to throw off the stupid people. But anyone with a brain will go “Hey…they’re just making **** up!”

Anonymous 0 Comments

You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.

Anonymous 0 Comments

When you buy a bar of soap and use it once it’s such a small change, you don’t even notice it. But over time, you will wear it down until it needs to be replaced. Equipment use is the same. Over time, you wear put components, and they need to be replaced or the entire machine needs to be replaced.