MRI centreNPI registry, September 2026

Desert MRI Lab LLC

7340 E Calle Meridan, Tuscon, AZ 85710

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Practice-location phone (registry)

(520) 820-9313

As recorded by the organisation in NPPES, last updated 28 September 2010. Not verified by us.

Registry Record

NPI: 1356650105
Type: MRI centre
Taxonomy codes: 261QM1200X (Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) clinic/center)
Practice location: 7340 E Calle Meridan, Tuscon, AZ 85710
Telephone: (520) 820-9313
NPI issued: 28 September 2010 (15 years ago)
Record updated: 28 September 2010 (15 years ago)
NPI status: NPI active as reported by CMS 2026-09
Metro area: Tucson, AZ (metropolitan area, Pima County)
State: Arizona (360 records statewide)
Map position: Census address match (rooftop level)
Snapshot: NPPES data dissemination file, 14 September 2026

What the Record Tells You

Desert MRI Lab LLC is an NPI registry record for an MRI centre at 7340 E Calle Meridan in Tuscon, Arizona 85710. CMS issued NPI 1356650105 on 28 September 2010, and the organisation last updated its own entry on 28 September 2010. That was 15 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: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) clinic/center (261QM1200X). The MRI-specific code means the organisation registered itself as a magnetic resonance imaging centre, the strongest signal the registry gives that a scanner is on site.

Tuscon sits in the Tucson, AZ metropolitan area (Pima County), which has 40 imaging-centre records on the Arizona side in the September 2026 file, 8 of them with the MRI code, out of 360 across Arizona. The nearest alternatives in the registry are Radiology LTD. - Carondelet (1.0 miles, Tucson), Simonmed Imaging - Wilmot (1.3 miles, Tucson) and Radiology LTD. (1.4 miles, Tucson), with 2 more within 2.9 miles.

For a cash-pay benchmark, our Arizona freestanding-centre estimate is $500 to $1,400 for a typical single-region MRI. At Arizona hospitals the cash price is measured rather than estimated: $347 to $5,618 for a brain MRI, median $516, from 27 of the 45 Arizona hospitals whose own price files we have read, out of 66 in the state, files dated to August 2026. This centre's own prices are not in the registry: call (520) 820-9313 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 7340 E Calle Meridan, straight-line distance. Rows without a link are name-classified radiology organisations or records outside a metro page.

Centre	City	Distance	Type	Phone (registry)
Radiology LTD. - Carondelet	Tucson, AZ	1.0 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(520) 751-3096
Simonmed Imaging - Wilmot	Tucson, AZ	1.3 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(520) 449-8001
Radiology LTD.	Tucson, AZ	1.4 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(520) 795-2889
Arizona Community Physician PC	Tucson, AZ	2.4 mi	MRI + radiology	(520) 298-1138
Arizona Community Physicians PC	Tucson, AZ	2.9 mi	MRI + radiology	(520) 327-0460

Where it sits

Desert MRI Lab LLC in amber, with the 5 nearest registry records in teal. Boundary drawn: Pima 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 Arizona: 27 hospitals measured

Freestanding imaging centre, estimated

$500 to $1,400

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

Hospital outpatient, measured

$347 to $5,618

Median $516 cash against a median gross charge of $3,014, from 27 of the 45 Arizona hospitals whose own price files we have read, out of 66 in the state, files dated to August 2026.

Phoenix and Tucson markets are competitive with growing freestanding networks. 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 8 hospitals publish a “cash price” that is its chargemaster restated rather than a discount, reaching $3,014; those are kept out of the band above and counted here instead. 3 more hospitals list this code at prices more than three times apart in the same file, from $116 to $446, 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 Desert MRI Lab LLC.