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 Lumbar W&W/O Cont
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Low
$294
Average
$1.6k
Median
$1.5k
High
$25.1k
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| 1 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $1.4k | $1.4k | $491 | 34% | 169–178 | $655 – $2.3k |
| 2 | Piedmont Atlanta Atlanta, GA | $955 | $1.3k | $672 | 53% | 38–74 | $468 – $2.3k |
| 3 | Missouri Baptist Medical Center Saint Louis, MO | $1.0k | $1.2k | $447 | 37% | 33–69 | $644 – $2.3k |
| 4 | Piedmont Athens Regional Athens, GA | $946 | $1.2k | $622 | 51% | 17–53 | $562 – $2.3k |
| 5 | Barnes Jewish St. Peters Hospital St. Peters, MO | $1.0k | $1.3k | $456 | 36% | 13–31 | $644 – $2.3k |
| 6 | Memorial Hospital Belleville, IL | $1.0k | $1.2k | $447 | 37% | 13–31 | $644 – $2.3k |
| 7 | Piedmont Augusta Augusta, GA | $875 | $1.3k | $723 | 57% | 6–60 | $478 – $2.3k |
| 8 | Saint Luke’s South Hospital, Inc Overland Park, KS | $1.8k | $1.5k | $376 | 25% | 6–60 | $870 – $1.8k |
| 9 | Piedmont Eastside Snellville, GA | $946 | $1.3k | $725 | 58% | 5–50 | $468 – $2.3k |
| 10 | FRANCISCAN ALLIANCE, INC. dba FRANCISCAN HEALTH CROWN POINT CROWN POINT, IN | $1.8k | $1.8k | $311 | 18% | 4–40 | $539 – $2.0k |
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