Medical physicist review of MRI safety and planning at Piedmont Augusta

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

HC MR Safety Med Physics Xm Customization Plng&Mntr

Augusta, GA

See all hospitals reporting CPT 76017 →

SharePost on X LinkedIn

Pricing by billing methodology

Price type

How this price compares nationally

Piedmont Augusta’s median price of $203 is 38% below the median hospital's median price ($327), higher than 5% of the 1,605 hospitals reporting CPT 76017. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.

Payers reporting CPT 76017 at Piedmont Augusta

Negotiated rates from the hospital’s own file: 11 payers, 14 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	Bcbs Sc bcbs south carolina exchange percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges	$60	$60	—	—	—	$60 – $60
2	Caresource caresource medicaid percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges	$88	$88	—	—	—	$88 – $88
3	Blue Cross Blue Shield blue cross south carolina percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges	$117	$117	—	—	—	$117 – $117
4	Medcost medcost percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges	$149	$149	—	—	—	$149 – $149
5	MultiPlan multiplan percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges	$164	$164	—	—	—	$164 – $164
6	Phcs phcs percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges	$164	$164	—	—	—	$164 – $164
7	Kaiser kaiser percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges	$276	$276	—	—	—	$276 – $276
8	First Health first health percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges	$317	$317	—	—	—	$317 – $317
9	Aetna aetna hmo per diem · both	$373	$373	—	—	—	$373 – $373
10	Aetna aetna ppo per diem · both	$373	$373	—	—	—	$373 – $373
11	Blue Cross Blue Shield bcbs south carolina shp fee schedule · both	$373	$373	—	—	—	$373 – $373
12	Cigna cigna per diem · both	$373	$373	—	—	—	$373 – $373
13	UnitedHealthcare united healthcare fee schedule · both	$373	$373	—	—	—	$373 – $373
14	UnitedHealthcare united healthcare exchange fee schedule · both	$373	$373	—	—	—	$373 – $373

Last updated: Jul 1, 2026

Compare to other hospitals

See Medical physicist review of MRI safety and planning pricing across every hospital in the network reporting it, or ask Claude or any MCP client directly — see how to connect.