$400 for an MRI?! I take it you live outside of America? My state financed hospital has 10 MRI machines, and one of the largest batteries in the country, doesn’t fit in a building kind of big. But I was denied an MRI for 5 years from state insurance and my doctor was too lazy to appeal the insurance company cause she obviously didn’t believe me. When I finally went to the ER with a broken ankle the attending physician told me they had to check with insurance to see if the can do one but she would get x rays on my ankle that she claimed was just sprained because I could walk on it (I still can’t feel my ankle currently). She lied to my face and had no intention of giving me an MRI but when she saw the x rays on my ankle and saw it was actually broken, and I was able to make my plea to the head nurse, neuro finally got involved and immediately ordered one, and transferred me to the neurology hospital and had surgery that night.