Get MRI Now, a healthcare technology platform that provides physician-authorized MRI referrals from a phone in seconds, announced on September 10, 2026, that it is expanding beyond Florida into nine additional states: Texas, Nevada, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Illinois, Colorado, New York, and New Jersey. The expansion follows a year of operation in Florida, where the platform connected thousands of patients with same-day imaging access without an office visit, a referral appointment, or a wait. The move brings Get MRI Now's model—no referral appointment, no copay, physician-reviewed authorization in seconds—to a combined population of more than 140 million Americans across the ten states now served.
The expansion addresses a national problem. Hospitals report that routine MRI appointments often require two to three weeks or more to schedule, with nearly half of all MRI orders delayed beyond their originally expected date. In Florida, ACA marketplace premiums rose an average of 34.1% for 2026, from $648 to $867 per month, according to the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, and roughly 2.5 million Floridians under 65 remain uninsured, per U.S. Census Bureau and FL Health Charts data from 2024. These factors leave millions facing higher out-of-pocket costs for every step of the traditional referral process. Get MRI Now's first year in Florida demonstrated that removing the office-visit bottleneck gets patients to a scan faster and for less money.
The platform works in five steps: visit GetMRINow.com from any device, select the body part causing concern, answer a short series of targeted medical questions, receive an official physician-authorized MRI referral within seconds for a flat $49.95 platform fee, and use the referral at a partner imaging center the same day if needed. There are no office-visit copays, no physical therapy prerequisites, and no waiting weeks for an appointment just to request a scan. New imaging center partnerships are being added in each state on a rolling basis to expand same-day availability.
Every request is reviewed by a panel of board-certified physicians, each licensed in the state where the patient is located, based on the symptoms presented. Patients receive a legitimate medical authorization, not a workaround, that is accepted at partner imaging centers in that state. Get MRI Now maintains full compliance with each state's medical licensing and telehealth standards as it expands. Dr. Marie Jones, a board-certified Florida physician on the Get MRI Now Medical Review Panel, said, "Whether a patient is in Orlando or Austin, the standard of review doesn't change: a board-certified physician licensed in that state evaluates every request before a referral is issued. Expanding to nine new states means a lot more families can get an answer about what's wrong with them in minutes instead of weeks."
The impact for patients is significant. A working parent in Casselberry, Florida, who injures their back lifting a child would traditionally face finding childcare, taking time off work for multiple appointments, X-rays, six weeks of physical therapy, and repeat visits just to justify an MRI referral that may still be denied. With Get MRI Now, that same parent completes the referral process from their phone during a lunch break, pays a flat $49.95 fee, and schedules a scan at a nearby imaging center the same day. That relief is now available to families in Austin, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Albuquerque, Chicago, Denver, New York City, Newark, and communities across all ten states.
For patients, referrals are available at GetMRINow.com. Imaging centers and clinics interested in partnerships can visit GetMRINow.com/contact. The expansion signals a growing trend in healthcare technology: direct-to-consumer platforms that bypass traditional referral bottlenecks, potentially pressuring traditional providers to streamline their own processes. As diagnostic imaging delays and rising insurance costs remain nationwide problems, Get MRI Now's multi-state rollout could accelerate the adoption of similar models, reshaping how patients access essential medical imaging.
