MRI CT Cost Calculator

MRI CT Cost Calculator helps estimate Korea-related diagnostic test, emergency room, non-covered care, MRI, CT, and follow-up assumptions in English.

MRI and CT cost calculator

Uses the Korean MRI/CT model for scan type, body part, contrast, medical necessity, hospital level, outpatient or inpatient status, insurance type, count, and medical expense tax credit.

Korean source inputs

Patient cost

₩200,000

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Covered full fee

₩400,000

Korean insured full fee before copay.

Insured self-pay

₩200,000

50% copay at selected setting.

Non-covered range

₩250,000 - ₩600,000

Expected self-pay if not covered.

Potential saving

₩220,000

Non-covered average minus insured self-pay.

Tax refund estimate

₩0

Reference medical expense tax credit.

This English calculator calls the same pure health calculation function used by the Korean page. Inputs and result labels are translated; the formula is not re-modeled.

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MRI and CT cost calculator

This English page follows the Korean MRI and CT guide for scan type, body part, contrast, medical necessity, hospital level, outpatient or inpatient setting, insurance type, scan count, patient cost, savings versus non-covered care, and tax credit.

Covered full-fee assumptions

MRI brain insured full fee is KRW 480,000, while MRI brain plus vessel MRA is KRW 720,000 in the Korean source. Lumbar and cervical MRI use KRW 400,000 as the covered full fee before patient copay.

CT brain insured full fee is KRW 130,000, chest CT is KRW 160,000, abdominal CT is KRW 200,000, and coronary CT is KRW 380,000. The calculator multiplies the unit full fee by scan count.

Contrast adds KRW 120,000 for MRI and KRW 80,000 for CT on the covered-fee side. Non-covered contrast uses a separate market-price add-on, so the covered and non-covered ranges are not the same table.

Coverage judgment

Medical necessity is treated as covered when the physician recognizes disease suspicion, symptom evidence, follow-up, surgery evaluation, or other medical need. Screening without symptoms is treated as non-covered in the model.

For mild symptoms, the page keeps the Korean warning that brain and brain-vessel MRI coverage was tightened from October 2023. A simple headache or dizziness pattern without neurologic abnormality can be treated as non-covered.

Hospital-level effect

Outpatient copay differs by institution level: clinic 30 percent, hospital 40 percent, general hospital 50 percent, and tertiary hospital 60 percent. Inpatient covered scans use a 20 percent copay in this model.

Use the result with the doctor order, benefit decision, contrast safety check, private insurance rider, and actual hospital quote. The estimate is for Korean billing planning, not for deciding whether imaging is medically necessary.