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California, NPI registry September 2026

Imaging Centers in El Centro, CA: 8 Registry Records

El Centro is a metropolitan area. The September 2026 NPI file lists 8 imaging organisations on the California side (Imperial County): 0 under the MRI or radiology clinic codes (0 with the MRI-specific code) and 8 diagnostic-radiology organisations classified by name. They spread across 3 cities, led by El Centro (6), Brawley (1) and Imperial (1). 2 records were updated in 2024 or later and 3 have not been touched since before 2020.

Price context: a single-region MRI in California typically runs $600 to $1,800 cash at a freestanding centre and $2,200 to $7,500 at a hospital. The registry holds no prices; call with the CPT code and ask for the self-pay rate.

Registry records
8
0 with a centre page
MRI-specific code
0
261QM1200X on the record
Cities
3
Imperial County
Address-matched
100%
rest placed at ZIP centroid

Hospital Cash Prices in El Centro

Federal price-transparency files (45 CFR 180) oblige every hospital to publish its discounted cash price per CPT code. Where we have parsed the files for this metro, the figures are below; they are the benchmark the freestanding centres beat.

Hospital cash prices for El Centro: not broken out by metro yet. We publish hospital MRI cash prices only from a hospital's own federal transparency file, and this metro has not been broken out separately. Statewide we have read them: a brain MRI runs $153 to $8,216 cash, median $2,307, from 122 of the 169 California hospitals whose own price files we have read, out of 276 in the state, files dated to September 2026. The freestanding-centre range below is still our own estimate.

El Centro map
Locator map of El Centro, CA showing 8 imaging centre locations drawn over 1 county (Imperial County)Elite Imperial ImagingI V Radiology Medical GroupI V Radiology Medical GroupImperial RadiologyImperial Valley Medical Imaging Services INCOnline Radiology Medical Group, INC.

8 of 8 records are plotted. Hover a row to find it on the map, or use your location to sort the list by distance.

address matched by the Census geocoder placed at the ZIP centroid, so it marks the area and not the door

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

8 Imaging Centres in El Centro

Every California-side registry record for El Centro. Centres with a dedicated page are linked; name-classified radiology organisations and records without a Census address match are shown as rows. Phones are the practice-location numbers in the registry, as of the record's last update. Hover or tap a row to find it on the map.

Centre (registry name)CityTypePhone (registry)Last updated
Elite Imperial Imaging
Name-classified registry row
El CentroRadiology org. (name-classified)(442) 222-67782026-02
I V Radiology Medical Group
Name-classified registry row
BrawleyRadiology org. (name-classified)(760) 351-35012024-08
I V Radiology Medical Group
Name-classified registry row
El CentroRadiology org. (name-classified)(760) 339-72412021-03
Imperial Radiology
Legal name: Am & Bb Imaging Center INC
Name-classified registry row
ImperialRadiology org. (name-classified)(760) 730-35362023-01
Imperial Valley Medical Imaging Services INC
Name-classified registry row
El CentroRadiology org. (name-classified)(760) 352-98082020-08
Online Radiology Medical Group, INC.
Name-classified registry row
El CentroRadiology org. (name-classified)(760) 960-05622014-11
Open System Imaging
Legal name: Open System MRI I A California Limited Partnership
Sibling registration, see the linked centre at this address
El CentroRadiology org. (name-classified)(760) 312-59662013-02
Open System Imaging
Legal name: Open System MRI LLC
Name-classified registry row
El CentroRadiology org. (name-classified)(760) 312-59662017-03

Nearby Metro Areas

California Cash-Price Benchmark

Cash price for a brain MRI in California: 122 hospitals measured

Freestanding imaging centre, estimated

$600 to $1,800
Our own estimate. No imaging operator publishes a per-state cash price.

Hospital outpatient, measured

$153 to $8,216
Median $2,307 cash against a median gross charge of $5,150, from 122 of the 169 California hospitals whose own price files we have read, out of 276 in the state, files dated to September 2026.

Bay Area and LA imaging centres are competitive; UCSF and Cedars hospitals at the top end. 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 24 hospitals publish a “cash price” that is its chargemaster restated rather than a discount, reaching $20,680; those are kept out of the band above and counted here instead. 12 more hospitals list this code at prices more than three times apart in the same file, from $19 to $1,825, 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).

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.

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Updated 2026-06-11