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.
Original text from hospital filings
MRI Brain W/O Contrast
Low
$57
Average
$5.2k
Median
$2.2k
High
$4455.4k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Seattle Children's Hospital Seattle, WA | $2.6k | $2.6k | $1.6k | 61% | 12,127–12,640 | $131 – $4.7k |
| 2 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Lexington, KY | $1.5k | $1.8k | $1.4k | 77% | 2,098 | $391 – $4.1k |
| 3 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Corbin, KY | $1.1k | $2.0k | $1.7k | 84% | 1,715 | $348 – $4.5k |
| 4 | Samaritan Hospital Troy, NY | $183 | $182 | $212 | 116% | 1,560–1,938 | $153 – $3.7k |
| 5 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc. Louisville, KY | $1.6k | $1.9k | $1.4k | 74% | 1,303 | $478 – $4.3k |
| 6 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Albany, IN | $2.0k | $2.2k | $887 | 40% | 1,093 | $1.1k – $4.0k |
| 7 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Elizabethtown, KY | $428 | $950 | $1.1k | 112% | 905 | $391 – $3.8k |
| 8 | Nemours Children's Hospital Wilmington, DE | $1.3k | $1.3k | $429 | 33% | 642–768 | $462 – $2.2k |
| 9 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Paducah, KY | $380 | $1.0k | $910 | 89% | 626–644 | $348 – $3.3k |
| 10 | St Louis Childrens Hospital Saint Louis, MO | $4.2k | $3.9k | $579 | 15% | 600–645 | $2.7k – $4.8k |
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