Public tariffs, separately identified private published prices and public waiting times for mri knee without contrast, drawn from government schedules, hospital price publications and waiting-time registries (cutoff: 2026-10-19).
What a complete procedure typically includes
Our reference definition covers: one knee scan, radiology report. It excludes: contrast, second knee, sedation. Note: Government tariff codes below follow each country’s own billing rules and may exclude implants, doctor fees, or follow-up care—check each country card for what is included.
Public tariffs are not private cash prices: Public-tariff rows show what a government health system (such as the UK NHS, US Medicare, or French public insurance) pays a hospital or doctor—not what you pay out of pocket as a private patient.
Published private packages are separate from public tariffs: Private packages carry their hospital name and published scope. Check whether the price is partial or hospital-wide: Some schedules publish a single hospital payment, while others (like US Medicare) split the doctor’s fee and the hospital facility fee into separate rows. We never add separate fees together.
Two different ways countries measure waiting times: Some countries report how long people currently on the waiting list have been waiting so far (e.g., Spain), while others report the total wait for patients who already had their procedure (e.g., Poland, Denmark).
Official benchmarks with unverified episode equivalence do not establish the cost of the complete procedure. Historical periods do not describe current appointment availability.
What the public health system pays (official tariff)
$243.77 USD (single published tariff, n=1)What US Medicare pays the hospital (outpatient facility only)Official government source (L2)Hospital outpatient facility fee only — excludes the surgeon’s professional fee · Schedule: 2026-10Source: US Medicare (CMS OPPS)
$207.67 USD median (typical range p25–p75: 195.54–219.87 USD across 109 observations)What US Medicare pays the doctor (surgeon fee only)Official government source (L2)Doctor’s professional fee only — excludes hospital room, anaesthesia, and implant · Schedule: 2026-01Source: US Medicare (CMS Physician Fee Schedule)
Separate hospital and doctor payment schedules. Do not add together: we never sum them into a synthetic total.
PUBLIC HOSPITAL WAITING TIME
— Not yet in our official snapshot for United States
Scope notes, billing codes & exact distribution
public_tariff · PFS professional fee in facility; non-QP; excludes hospital, anaesthesia and implant · code 73721 · source period 2026-01
public_tariff · OPPS national unadjusted hospital outpatient facility payment; excludes separate professional fee · code 73721 · source period 2026-10
Countries in the index without official data for mri knee without contrast yet: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Malaysia, Norway, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Thailand, Türkiye.
Public payment tariffs · United States · PFS professional fee in facility; non-QP; excludes hospital, anaesthesia and implant · 2026-01 · USD
Each row is a separate published payment series, not a clinical ranking or a complete procedure quote. Solid teal bars indicate public hospital/episode tariffs; dashed amber bars indicate public doctor-only professional fees; purple bars indicate private published prices.
Public payment tariffs · United States · OPPS national unadjusted hospital outpatient facility payment; excludes separate professional fee · 2026-10 · USD
Each row is a separate published payment series, not a clinical ranking or a complete procedure quote. Solid teal bars indicate public hospital/episode tariffs; dashed amber bars indicate public doctor-only professional fees; purple bars indicate private published prices.Inspect complete statistical table (all series, quantiles, procedure codes, FX rates & exclusions)
CareFare Global (SOFT DEV FZ LLC). “CareFare Global Health Index: MRI knee without contrast.” Version 1; evidence capture cutoff 2026-10-14. https://carefareglobal.com/index/mri-knee. Accessed: [YYYY-MM-DD: fill in access date].
BibTeX
@misc{carefare_health_index__index_mri_knee,
author = {{CareFare Global (SOFT DEV FZ LLC)}},
title = {CareFare Global Health Index: MRI knee without contrast},
publisher = {CareFare Global Health Index},
version = {1},
date = {2026-10-14},
url = {https://carefareglobal.com/index/mri-knee},
urldate = {YYYY-MM-DD},
note = {Evidence capture cutoff: 2026-10-14. Fill in urldate before reuse; cite also the original source and source period.}
}
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