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&W/O Cont
Low
$1
Average
$1.2k
Median
$750
High
$12.0k
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| 1 | Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA | $416 | $493 | $307 | 62% | 5,784–5,892 | $386 – $5.0k |
| 2 | State Of Mississippi-university Of Mississippi Medical Center JACKSON, MS | $744 | $768 | $497 | 65% | 4,934–4,952 | $280 – $1.9k |
| 3 | Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital Inc Milwaukee, WI | $285 | $967 | $1.4k | 143% | 3,884–3,992 | $191 – $6.4k |
| 4 | Covenant Medical Center Inc Saginaw, MI | $421 | $409 | $35 | 9% | 3,345 | $85 – $3.5k |
| 5 | Massachusetts Eye and Ear Boston, MA | $424 | $549 | $314 | 57% | 2,731–2,803 | $386 – $2.5k |
| 6 | Fairview Health Services Edina, MN | $383 | $572 | $279 | 49% | 2,336–2,741 | $28 – $2.6k |
| 7 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $349 | $353 | $7 | 2% | 2,054–2,063 | $349 – $4.0k |
| 8 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $437 | $659 | $323 | 49% | 1,893–2,361 | $74 – $2.6k |
| 9 | Fairview Health Services Burnsville, MN | $666 | $679 | $328 | 48% | 1,893–2,118 | $277 – $2.6k |
| 10 | Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City Inc City, OK | $323 | $360 | $91 | 25% | 1,728–1,791 | $306 – $726 |
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