Radiology clinicNPI registry, September 2026

Tower Imaging

Registered legal name: Birmingham Radiological Group, PC

1022 1ST Street North, Alabaster, AL 35007

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Practice-location phone (registry)

(205) 621-3930

As recorded by the organisation in NPPES, last updated 11 March 2009. Not verified by us.

Registry Record

NPI: 1386883619
Type: Radiology clinic/centre
Taxonomy codes: 261QR0200X (Radiology clinic/center)
Practice location: 1022 1ST Street North, Alabaster, AL 35007
Telephone: (205) 621-3930
NPI issued: 10 February 2009 (17 years ago)
Record updated: 11 March 2009 (17 years ago)
NPI status: NPI active as reported by CMS 2026-09
Metro area: Birmingham, AL (metropolitan area, Shelby County)
State: Alabama (172 records statewide)
Subpart of: Birmingham Radiological Group, PC
Map position: Census address match (rooftop level)
Snapshot: NPPES data dissemination file, 14 September 2026

What the Record Tells You

Tower Imaging, the trading name of Birmingham Radiological Group, PC, is an NPI registry record for a radiology clinic/centre at 1022 1ST Street North in Alabaster, Alabama 35007. CMS issued NPI 1386883619 on 10 February 2009, and the organisation last updated its own entry on 11 March 2009. That was 17 years ago, so treat the phone number and suite as unverified until you have spoken to someone there.

The record carries one imaging taxonomy code: Radiology clinic/center (261QR0200X). It registered as a radiology clinic without the MRI-specific code, so ask which modalities it operates before assuming an MRI is available. CMS records it as a subpart of Birmingham Radiological Group, PC, so pricing may follow the parent's policies.

Alabaster sits in the Birmingham, AL metropolitan area (Shelby County), which has 50 imaging-centre records on the Alabama side in the September 2026 file, 9 of them with the MRI code, out of 172 across Alabama. The nearest alternatives in the registry are Imagesouth Shelby (0.8 miles, Alabaster), American Health Imaging of Shelby (0.8 miles, Alabaster) and Cahaba Valley Imaging, LLC (1.9 miles, Pelham), with 2 more within 11 miles.

For a cash-pay benchmark, our Alabama freestanding-centre estimate is $450 to $1,100 for a typical single-region MRI. At Alabama hospitals the cash price is measured rather than estimated: $85 to $2,153 for a brain MRI, median $1,381, from 14 of the 19 Alabama hospitals whose own price files we have read, out of 73 in the state, files dated to September 2026. This centre's own prices are not in the registry: call (205) 621-3930 with the CPT code for your scan and ask for the self-pay rate, whether the radiologist's report is included, and the scanner's field strength.

Nearest Alternatives

The 5 closest imaging records to 1022 1ST Street North, straight-line distance. Rows without a link are name-classified radiology organisations or records outside a metro page.

Centre	City	Distance	Type	Phone (registry)
Imagesouth Shelby	Alabaster, AL	0.8 mi	Radiology clinic	(205) 663-4674
American Health Imaging of Shelby	Alabaster, AL	0.8 mi	Radiology clinic	(205) 663-4674
Cahaba Valley Imaging, LLC	Pelham, AL	1.9 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(205) 418-1212
Camellia Imaging LLC	Hoover, AL	6.6 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(205) 544-2828
Open MRI of Birmingham	Hoover, AL	11 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(205) 823-3366

Where it sits

Tower Imaging in amber, with the 5 nearest registry records in teal. Boundary drawn: Shelby County outline.

Map data: OpenFreeMap, © OpenMapTiles, data from OpenStreetMap contributors. Boundaries: US Census Bureau cartographic boundary files.

Cash-Price Benchmark

Cash price for a brain MRI in Alabama: 14 hospitals measured

Freestanding imaging centre, estimated

$450 to $1,100

Our own estimate. No imaging operator publishes a per-state cash price.

Hospital outpatient, measured

$85 to $2,153

Median $1,381 cash against a median gross charge of $3,470, from 14 of the 19 Alabama hospitals whose own price files we have read, out of 73 in the state, files dated to September 2026.

Birmingham and Huntsville have the most independent imaging centres. The hospital figures are CPT 70551, brain MRI without contrast, taken from each hospital's own federal transparency file and attributed to the date that file carries. A further 2 hospitals publish a “cash price” that is its chargemaster restated rather than a discount, reaching $12,398; those are kept out of the band above and counted here instead. 1 more hospital lists this code at prices more than three times apart in the same file, from $280 to $280, so which row is the scan cannot be told from the file; they are excluded from the band and counted here. Hospitals whose file we could not read are named, not filled in (methodology).

What to ask when you call

The self-pay price for your exact CPT code (70551 brain, 72148 lumbar spine, 73221 or 73721 joint, without contrast), and whether the radiologist's report is included.
Scanner field strength (1.5T or 3T) and whether it is closed, wide-bore or open.
ACR or IAC accreditation, and who reads the images. The registry cannot tell you either.
Whether they accept an order from a telehealth referral if you have no local doctor.

Full list: cheap MRI, good MRI checklist.

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Source: NPI registry records, status as reported by CMS, September 2026 file (NPPES data dissemination file dated 14 September 2026, download.cms.gov; US federal public data, no charge). NPPES is an identifier registry, not a licence register: an NPI does not validate licensure, accreditation or that a scanner is on site. Names, addresses and phones are as self-reported to CMS and many records have not been updated for years; confirm before you travel. Coordinates: US Census Bureau geocoder, ZIP-code centroid where the address did not match (flagged). Metro areas: 2023 Census core-based statistical areas by county. Price ranges: our methodology; hospital cash prices: each hospital's federal transparency file (45 CFR 180), where parsed. No centre pays to be listed and none is endorsed. Listed here in error, or want a correction? Email questions@mriscancost.com. This page describes a registry record, not a review or recommendation of Tower Imaging.