MRI brain stem without contrast dye

Hospitals report these codes with terse, inconsistent chargemaster text. This plain-English title was written by an AI model from that text and has not been reviewed by a person, so it can be wrong. The prices on this page come straight from hospital filings and do not depend on it.

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Original text from hospital filings

MRI Brain W/O Contrast

Payers reporting CPT 70551

72 payers file a negotiated rate for this code. Each is shown once, under the terms the most hospitals file it under; rates under different terms (billing class, payment method, setting) are never blended, so open a payer to see them all. Figures are hospital-level averages; the median is across hospitals.

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +41 other terms	807	$416.96	$537.58	$1.00 – $7,103
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +40 other terms	644	$368.77	$893.56	$1.00 – $5,830
3	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +38 other terms	540	$571.57	$730.84	$1.00 – $17,619
4	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +38 other terms	455	$261.63	$533.33	$1.10 – $6,234
5	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	379	$550.23	$976.93	$38.72 – $10,491
6	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms	266	$271.46	$312.58	$1.00 – $1,976
7	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms	221	$608.46	$514.50	$6.21 – $10,686
8	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	202	$258.43	$300.46	$55.11 – $1,483
9	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	132	$2,979	$2,406	$89.73 – $8,621
10	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	120	$378.76	$351.76	$57.60 – $2,404
11	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	112	$472.77	$739.10	$69.02 – $8,095
12	Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	103	$239.32	$283.11	$206.40 – $4,881
13	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	90	$308.19	$393.93	$1.08 – $2,966
14	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	89	$220.48	$255.26	$116.92 – $1,148
15	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	88	$239.34	$780.84	$48.95 – $6,112
16	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	79	$447.03	$1,085	$56.22 – $5,496
17	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	74	$438.85	$694.18	$52.25 – $3,802
18	Oscar facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	70	$348.78	$416.13	$165.40 – $4,081
19	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	64	$996.66	$1,262	$82.82 – $6,494
20	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	58	$222.54	$713.90	$74.16 – $3,890
21	Amerihealth Caritas facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	57	$405.13	$413.37	$165.81 – $1,264
22	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	57	$227.33	$247.81	$110.20 – $731.23
23	Medicare other · both · +22 other terms	54	$252.44	$344.83	$221.34 – $2,332
24	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	42	$241.14	$255.80	$202.15 – $410.36
25	Clover facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	36	$251.29	$246.18	$207.70 – $284.66

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