MRI centreNPI registry, September 2026

Open MRI

Registered legal name: Palafox Leasing LLC

42078 Veterans Ave Ste F, Hammond, LA 70403

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Practice-location phone (registry)

(985) 340-1960

As recorded by the organisation in NPPES, last updated 14 September 2015. Not verified by us.

Registry Record

NPI: 1568883122
Type: MRI centre
Taxonomy codes: 261QM1200X (Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) clinic/center)
Practice location: 42078 Veterans Ave Ste F, Hammond, LA 70403
Telephone: (985) 340-1960
NPI issued: 30 December 2013 (12 years ago)
Record updated: 14 September 2015 (11 years ago)
NPI status: NPI active as reported by CMS 2026-09
Metro area: Hammond, LA (metropolitan area, Tangipahoa Parish)
State: Louisiana (195 records statewide)
Map position: Census address match (rooftop level)
Snapshot: NPPES data dissemination file, 14 September 2026

What the Record Tells You

Open MRI, the trading name of Palafox Leasing LLC, is an NPI registry record for an MRI centre at 42078 Veterans Ave Ste F in Hammond, Louisiana 70403. CMS issued NPI 1568883122 on 30 December 2013, and the organisation last updated its own entry on 14 September 2015. That was 11 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.

Hammond sits in the Hammond, LA metropolitan area (Tangipahoa Parish), which has 4 imaging-centre records on the Louisiana side in the September 2026 file, 2 of them with the MRI code, out of 195 across Louisiana. The nearest alternatives in the registry are Hospital Based Physicians - Radiologists (0.6 miles, Hammond), Open MRI Hammond (1.0 miles, Hammond) and Northshore Imaging Assoc LLC (2.0 miles, Hammond), with 2 more within 20 miles.

For a cash-pay benchmark, our Louisiana freestanding-centre estimate is $500 to $1,350 for a typical single-region MRI. At Louisiana hospitals the cash price is measured rather than estimated: $257 to $2,814 for a brain MRI, median $692, from 45 of the 55 Louisiana hospitals whose own price files we have read, out of 82 in the state, files dated to September 2026. This centre's own prices are not in the registry: call (985) 340-1960 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 42078 Veterans Ave Ste F, straight-line distance. Rows without a link are name-classified radiology organisations or records outside a metro page.

Centre	City	Distance	Type	Phone (registry)
Hospital Based Physicians - Radiologists	Hammond, LA	0.6 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(985) 230-1101
Open MRI Hammond	Hammond, LA	1.0 mi	MRI centre	(985) 340-1960
Northshore Imaging Assoc LLC	Hammond, LA	2.0 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(985) 542-8190
Pontchartrain Diagnostic Imaging LLC	Covington, LA	19 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(985) 867-4050
Image-3D	Mandeville, LA	20 mi	Radiology clinic	(985) 674-5200

Where it sits

Open MRI in amber, with the 5 nearest registry records in teal. Boundary drawn: no boundary (fitted to the plotted centres).

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Cash-Price Benchmark

Cash price for a brain MRI in Louisiana: 45 hospitals measured

Freestanding imaging centre, estimated

$500 to $1,350

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

Hospital outpatient, measured

$257 to $2,814

Median $692 cash against a median gross charge of $2,476, from 45 of the 55 Louisiana hospitals whose own price files we have read, out of 82 in the state, files dated to September 2026.

New Orleans Ochsner system is large; Baton Rouge competitive. 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 $3,110; those are kept out of the band above and counted here instead. 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 Open MRI.