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Manuel Opitz

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
129 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

We can just scale it up and down as we like to on the PC because we use 3D software and then we can print it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

And actually, the smaller it is, the cheaper it is for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

I mean, some prosthetic foot for adults, it's much more expensive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

For adults, if you think about cost-wise, it would be several hundred euros.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

And compared to what, for instance, insurance companies used to pay to suppliers, it's usually something in the area of 1,000, 2,000, 3,000, depending on the mobility of the patient, of course, how sportive they are and stuff like this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

And we also charge in this area, so we can directly be reimbursed by the insurance company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

Nothing changes there for our customers, which is really helpful to them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

Yeah, far less.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

For a child prosthetic foot, it's something between 800 euros and 1,200 euros.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

No, it's different.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

It's really difficult.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

It really depends on where you are insured.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

So if you're privately insured or publicly insured here in Germany, we have a big public insurance system, which is really nice.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

But it's also very, very difficult because every insurance and there are more than 200 out there in Germany alone.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

Everyone has their own prices.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

But it's roughly you can guess some area and then the medical supply store, they have to do the work in the end and get the reimbursement.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

We can only provide a cost estimation, but usually we fit in there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

And even for public insurance, not only for private insurance, which pays much, much more than what I mentioned.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

Actually, it were roughly slightly more about 30.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

But officially, I have to state this very clearly, officially, we mostly sold prototypes.