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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MRI Brain W&W/O Cont
Based on 202,328–254,978 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$101
Average
$2.4k
Median
$1.5k
High
$1008.0k
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| 1 | Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA | $424 | $1.5k | $1.6k | 104% | 6,512–6,701 | $386 – $5.0k |
| 2 | State Of Mississippi-university Of Mississippi Medical Center JACKSON, MS | $744 | $867 | $551 | 64% | 6,265–6,301 | $280 – $1.9k |
| 3 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $2.2k | $2.0k | $1.4k | 71% | 5,990–6,089 | $349 – $4.0k |
| 4 | DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM, INC. Doing Business As: DUKE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Raleigh, NC | $1.2k | $1.6k | $1.3k | 82% | 4,848–4,956 | $279 – $5.2k |
| 5 | DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM, INC. Doing Business As: DUKE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Durham, NC | $1.2k | $1.6k | $1.3k | 82% | 4,848–4,956 | $279 – $5.2k |
| 6 | Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital Inc Milwaukee, WI | $1.8k | $2.5k | $2.3k | 95% | 4,617–4,761 | $191 – $6.4k |
| 7 | Mayo Clinic Arizona Phoenix, AZ | $2.5k | $2.3k | $834 | 36% | 3,858–4,317 | $104 – $3.5k |
| 8 | Covenant Medical Center Inc Saginaw, MI | $350 | $684 | $800 | 117% | 3,390–3,399 | $85 – $3.5k |
| 9 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Lexington, KY | $2.2k | $3.4k | $3.2k | 94% | 3,187 | $469 – $10.6k |
| 10 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $363 | $656 | $602 | 92% | 2,952–4,095 | $74 – $2.6k |
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