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 OPEN INTRACRANIAL PROC W&W/O CONTRAST
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Low
$87
Average
$1.1k
Median
$534
High
$212.8k
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| 1 | Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA | $7.5k | $7.3k | $1.6k | 22% | 24 | $1.7k – $9.6k |
| 2 | Methodist University Hospital MEMPHIS, TN | $163 | $249 | $181 | 73% | 1–10 | $50 – $810 |
| 3 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | $211 | $211 | — | — | 1–10 | $211 – $211 |
| 4 | St. Anthony Shawnee Hospital, Inc Shawnee, OK | $225 | $450 | $490 | 109% | — | $169 – $1.8k |
| 5 | University of Virginia Haymarket Medical Center Haymarket, VA | $507 | $2.0k | $2.3k | 116% | — | $180 – $6.9k |
| 6 | Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham Needham, MA | $583 | $615 | $134 | 22% | — | $469 – $792 |
| 7 | Lewisgale Hospital Montgomery CHRISTIANSBURG, VA | $696 | $631 | $136 | 22% | — | $402 – $732 |
| 8 | Ingalls Memorial Hospital Harvey, IL | $371 | $466 | $303 | 65% | — | $188 – $933 |
| 9 | USA Health University Hospital Mobile, AL | $136 | $140 | $6 | 4% | — | $136 – $150 |
| 10 | Fairview Health Services Edina, MN | $273 | $931 | $1.4k | 154% | — | $107 – $5.7k |
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