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 Thoracic W/+W/O Cont
Prices here combine facility and professional fees. See them separately →Experimental
Based on 14,610–43,995 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$91
Average
$2.3k
Median
$1.5k
High
$1008.3k
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| 1 | Seattle Children's Hospital Seattle, WA | $2.7k | $2.8k | $2.5k | 87% | 2,452–2,866 | $62 – $7.0k |
| 2 | Duke University Hospital Durham, NC | $1.2k | $1.6k | $1.4k | 85% | 707–806 | $332 – $5.2k |
| 3 | Duke University Hospital Raleigh, NC | $1.2k | $1.6k | $1.4k | 85% | 707–806 | $332 – $5.2k |
| 4 | Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA | $1.0k | $1.6k | $1.4k | 89% | 675–846 | $386 – $4.6k |
| 5 | State Of Mississippi-university Of Mississippi Medical Center JACKSON, MS | $744 | $867 | $551 | 64% | 628–709 | $280 – $1.9k |
| 6 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $2.2k | $1.8k | $1.2k | 68% | 604–703 | $349 – $3.5k |
| 7 | Mayo Clinic Arizona Phoenix, AZ | $2.8k | $2.5k | $1.1k | 43% | 561–795 | $104 – $4.7k |
| 8 | St. Peter's Health Helena, MT | $2.4k | $2.0k | $782 | 39% | 506–632 | $357 – $2.7k |
| 9 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $1.7k | $2.2k | $1.2k | 55% | 424–550 | $346 – $4.7k |
| 10 | Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital Inc Milwaukee, WI | $1.7k | $2.2k | $2.1k | 92% | 419–833 | $209 – $5.9k |
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