Healthcare A Case Study and Lecture Notes On MRI

Question: Review the required readings for this module and research the peer-reviewed literature regarding price transparency and value-driven health care. Prepare a paper that addresses the following: Search for a new primary care physician where you live. Describe in depth how you made your physician choice. What impact did price have on your decision making? What were the key factors that impacted your decision making? Search for pricing for an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) for a 13-year-old female patient complaining of headaches. Determine the cost of this procedure to you, as well as the cost is to the insurance provider. Do a price comparison against three other facilities offering the same service. Provide a chart that summarizes the price differences. Reflect on your experience and summarize the following: How long did this take? How comfortable would you be if you actually had to purchase these services in determining the value for services? Answer: Introduction Choosing a physician is a very important decision and should be considered by taking various facts in the consideration. MRI is a service which scans the human body parts for finding the defects. Thus, this report will discuss the factors that should be considered while doing an MRI; like, what MRI is actually and what is the average cost of MRI in U.S. as well as cost comparison of the three reputed MRI centres in U.S. This report also discusses time taken in MRI and how cost effective MRI centres can be searched. Choosing a Physician Medtronic physician centre provides the primary physician services in United States. There are many centres of Medtronic and is providing the best physician services in all over U.S. with many satisfied customers. According to the reviews, Medtronic is best in MRI services in United States. Medtronic provides its physician services at affordable cost. The factors that should be considered while choosing a physician are as follows: Price: Price is really a great factor while choosing a physician. Its really important to check the price of the physician that is going to be considered. The physician should be affordable because sometimes it may be possible that the respective physicians treatment did not work on you. This does not mean that the physician is not good but it may be possible that the treatment did not suit the person. Thus, the person may need to go to another physician. This may need more money. So, price is an important factor. Qualification and certification of physician: Qualification of the physician is also important. Qualification of the doctors provides the proof that they have a proper qualification and the knowledge about what they are doing. Certification actually includes how the doctor is certified for his work. It also includes the licence of the physician which tells whether the person is eligible to work as a physician. Govt. issues the license to the doctors by watching their performance as a doctor. Review: Before going to any physician, the review of other people should be considered. People should take recommendation from the other people who have taken the services of the respective physician because this provides a raw imagination about the physician weather he or she is able solve the problem. Reviews are actually the personal experiences of people; these are more realistic than considering the qualification of the physician. Policies of the Physician: Policies of the physician is also important to consider, these include up to what extent the physician is liable towards the patients and how responsible is s/he as a physician (Customer Report, 2014). Specialism of the Physician: People should also consider the specialism of the doctor. Whether the doctor is able to provide a proper solution to the patient. It will not mean anything to such doctor who doesnt have any knowledge about the persons problem that will just waste time and money. Red Flags: Some doctors do an unauthorised practice which is not approved by the govt. Even the best doctors do this as it may sometimes be necessary in some conditions. These types of practices are called mal practice. For good doctors only one or two situations of mal practice claim is allowed but if there are more claims against him then the physician should be omitted because this may risk the life of the patients or may become the reason of various side effects. Magnetic Resource Imaging (MRI) Magnetic resource imaging is a type of test that is done by creating a magnetic field. This also uses the radio wave energy. Radio wave energy is used to create picture of organs and inner structure of the body. This can be done by various ways like X-Rays, Computer Tomographic scan or ultrasound (Web md, 2014). MRI is very costly in United States. The average cost of MRI in US is $2611. We are going to consider the three MRI centres for considering the Medical Imaging Centre, DC MRI centre, Medtronic. These are the best service providers in their field. We have considered the cost of MRI for 13 year old female. This female has the problem of headache. Thus, the cost sheet of these centres are as follows. Cost sheet of the three MRI centres are as follows. According to the reviews, it was found that the Medical imaging centre is best in case of head MRI, as DC MRI centre is a specialist in case of the brain related problems. Thats why, even at low prices, it provides the best service in case of brain related problems than others (Chakravorty, 2012). Checking reliability of service MRI generally takes from 10 minutes to 2 hours that depends on the parts of the body which needs the scanning. This also takes the time according to the sensitiveness of the part. It should be considered that the MRI uses the radio waves for scanning the body parts that may result in various side effects or problems. These services are really tough to choose. So, first the patient should see whether the service which he is taking is appropriate for him or not. Along with that it should also be checked if the centre is providing the services according to the payment. For this, the person should take the review from the patients who have taken these services. Secondly, the person should check the prices in other centres also and check the internet for these services, so that they are satisfied about the cost and the service of these centres. (Blink, 2012). Conclusion The above report is the result of various studies and research. Choosing a physician is really an important task. Patients should consider all the facts about the physician which he is going to choose. People should check the qualification of the physician which will provide the specification and specialism about the physician and should also consider the other facts. MRI scans the human body for finding any disease. The price of MRI is also high; thus, it should be chosen very carefully. References Customer Report (2014). How to Choose a Doctor. Retrieved on 14th January 2015 from https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2014/09/how-to-choose-a-doctor/index.htm. Web Md (2014). Magnetic Resource Imaging. Retrieved on 14th January 2015 from https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/magnetic-resonance-imaging-mri Blink, EJ (2012). Magnetic Resource Imaging. Retrieved on 14th January 2015 from https://www.mri-physics.net/bin/mri-physics-en-rev1.3.pdf Chakravarty, A (2012). Cost Effective Analysis for Technology Acquisition. Retrieved on 14th January 2015 from https://medind.nic.in/maa/t08/i1/maat08i1p46.pdf