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 Chest W/Contrast - MRI Chest W Contrast
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Low
$83
Average
$2.3k
Median
$1.4k
High
$1008.2k
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| 1 | Tufts Medical Center BOSTON, MA | $1.0k | $1.1k | $570 | 51% | 6–60 | $548 – $3.8k |
| 2 | The University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, TX | $385 | $626 | $573 | 92% | 3–30 | $69 – $2.6k |
| 3 | Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA | $2.6k | $2.6k | $280 | 11% | 2–20 | $2.3k – $2.9k |
| 4 | Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital At Stanford PALO ALTO, CA | $7.4k | $15.5k | $10.6k | 69% | 2–20 | $6.0k – $28.5k |
| 5 | Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital Corporation Parkersburg, WV | $786 | $767 | $689 | 90% | 2–20 | $61 – $3.8k |
| 6 | University of Virginia Haymarket Medical Center Haymarket, VA | $1.7k | $1.5k | $703 | 46% | 1–10 | $315 – $3.1k |
| 7 | Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado West Jordan, UT | $1.3k | $1.3k | $709 | 55% | 1–10 | $229 – $2.6k |
| 8 | Melrosewakefield Healthcare Melrose, MA | $1.3k | $1.2k | $412 | 34% | 1–10 | $345 – $2.5k |
| 9 | University of Virginia Medical Center Charlottesville, VA | $1.6k | $1.6k | $945 | 59% | 1–10 | $315 – $5.1k |
| 10 | Public Hospital Dist No 1 Skagit dba Cascade Valley Hospital Arlington, WA | $2.1k | $1.9k | $1.0k | 55% | 1–10 | $294 – $3.5k |
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