MRI brain and brainstem without and with contrast dye at Crouse Hospital

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.

Model: claude-haiku-5-5
Provider: anthropic
API: message_batches
Reasoning effort: low
Max output tokens: 4096
Prompt version (hash): 444523875572
Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

Mri brain stem w/o & w/dye

Syracuse, NY

See all hospitals reporting CPT 70553 →

SharePost on X LinkedIn

Pricing by billing methodology

Price type

How this price compares nationally

Crouse Hospital’s median price of $580 is 33% below the median hospital's median price ($871), higher than 33% of the 2,597 hospitals reporting CPT 70553. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.

Payers reporting CPT 70553 at Crouse Hospital

Negotiated rates from the hospital’s own file: 6 payers, 18 plan rates. A facility fee, a professional fee, a per diem and a case rate are different bills, so each is listed on its own. Open a payer to see it across hospitals.

Filter by billing methodology

Filter by billing class

#
1	Humana commerical percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges	$95.66	$95.66	$95.66 – $95.66
2	Excellus medicare advantage fee schedule · outpatient	$380.32	$380.32	$380.32 – $380.32
3	UnitedHealthcare commerical percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges	$414.16	$414.16	$414.16 – $414.16
4	Aetna medicare fee schedule · outpatient	$435.49	$435.49	$435.49 – $435.49
5	Humana medicare advantage fee schedule · outpatient	$435.49	$435.49	$435.49 – $435.49
6	UnitedHealthcare medicare fee schedule · outpatient	$435.49	$435.49	$435.49 – $435.49
7	WellCare medicare advantage fee schedule · outpatient	$457.27	$457.27	$457.27 – $457.27
8	Aetna commerical fee schedule · outpatient	$522.42	$522.42	$522.42 – $522.42
9	Aetna raymour furniture company fee schedule · outpatient	$522.42	$522.42	$522.42 – $522.42
10	Excellus govt programs/ special products fee schedule · outpatient	$580.48	$580.48	$580.48 – $580.48
11	Molina medicaid hmo fee schedule · outpatient	$580.48	$580.48	$580.48 – $580.48
12	UnitedHealthcare essential plans 1 -4 fee schedule · outpatient	$580.48	$580.48	$580.48 – $580.48
13	UnitedHealthcare medicaid fee schedule · outpatient	$580.48	$580.48	$580.48 – $580.48
14	WellCare medicaid essential plan 3 and 4 fee schedule · outpatient	$580.48	$580.48	$580.48 – $580.48
15	WellCare medicaid essential plan 1 and 2 fee schedule · outpatient	$696.58	$696.58	$696.58 – $696.58
16	Excellus bcbs fee schedule · outpatient	$782.10	$782.10	$782.10 – $782.10
17	Excellus hospital blue fee schedule · outpatient	$782.10	$782.10	$782.10 – $782.10
18	Molina essential fee schedule · outpatient	$1,306	$1,306	$1,306 – $1,306

Last updated: May 19, 2026

Compare to other hospitals

See MRI brain and brainstem without and with contrast dye pricing across every hospital in the network reporting it, or ask Claude or any MCP client directly — see how to connect.