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
HC MRI Brain/Stem W/WO Cont
Low
$294
Average
$1.6k
Median
$1.5k
High
$21.7k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $1.4k | $1.4k | $491 | 34% | 1,631–1,676 | $349 – $4.0k |
| 2 | Missouri Baptist Medical Center Saint Louis, MO | $1.0k | $1.2k | $447 | 37% | 592–628 | $349 – $4.1k |
| 3 | Piedmont Atlanta Atlanta, GA | $971 | $1.3k | $607 | 46% | 408–417 | $683 – $6.2k |
| 4 | Saint Luke’s East Hospital Summit, MO | $1.8k | $1.5k | $376 | 25% | 144–279 | $207 – $6.0k |
| 5 | Saint Luke’s South Hospital, Inc Overland Park, KS | $1.8k | $1.5k | $376 | 25% | 123–312 | $207 – $6.0k |
| 6 | Piedmont Athens Regional Athens, GA | $963 | $1.2k | $620 | 50% | 121–130 | $562 – $6.0k |
| 7 | Piedmont Augusta Augusta, GA | $890 | $1.3k | $720 | 57% | 119–137 | $478 – $5.1k |
| 8 | St. Lukes Hospital of Kansas City City, KS | $2.2k | $1.9k | $431 | 23% | 108–243 | $207 – $4.8k |
| 9 | Progress West Hospital O'Fallon, MO | $1.0k | $1.2k | $447 | 37% | 108–117 | $343 – $6.6k |
| 10 | Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital At Stanford PALO ALTO, CA | $28.5k | $21.7k | $9.7k | 45% | 100–118 | $1.9k – $28.5k |
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