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 Spine Lumbar W/ Contrast (Total)
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Based on 295–2,806 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$84
Average
$2.0k
Median
$1.2k
High
$1008.3k
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| 1 | Seattle Children's Hospital Seattle, WA | $1.7k | $1.3k | $963 | 72% | 567–1,080 | $49 – $3.1k |
| 2 | Arkansas Childrens Northwest Springdale, AR | $328 | $1.2k | $1.1k | 89% | 17–26 | $326 – $3.1k |
| 3 | St. Peter's Health Helena, MT | $1.6k | $1.4k | $675 | 48% | 10–100 | $357 – $2.1k |
| 4 | Covenant Medical Center Inc Saginaw, MI | $327 | $531 | $615 | 116% | 9–90 | $65 – $2.7k |
| 5 | Hospital Authority of Colquitt County Moultrie, GA | $3.6k | $2.6k | $1.6k | 60% | 8–80 | $84 – $3.8k |
| 6 | Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte, NC | $1.7k | $1.8k | $1.4k | 80% | 8–80 | $74 – $4.3k |
| 7 | Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital Inc Milwaukee, WI | $2.4k | $2.5k | $1.6k | 65% | 8–80 | $363 – $4.6k |
| 8 | Valley County Hospital Ord, NE | $298 | $967 | $1.3k | 132% | 7–70 | $79 – $3.9k |
| 9 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | $1.6k | $1.5k | $502 | 34% | 6–60 | $386 – $1.9k |
| 10 | Childrens Hospital Colorado Aurora, CO | $2.8k | $2.7k | $942 | 35% | 5–50 | $117 – $4.0k |
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