MRI centreNPI registry, September 2026

Howard Radiology

Registered legal name: Howard Open MRI LLC

11055 Little Patuxent Pkwy, Suite L9, Columbia, MD 21044

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Practice-location phone (registry)

(410) 531-1900

As recorded by the organisation in NPPES, last updated 6 January 2011. Not verified by us.

Registry Record

NPI: 1356645220
Type: MRI centre
Taxonomy codes: 261QM1200X (Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) clinic/center)
Practice location: 11055 Little Patuxent Pkwy, Suite L9, Columbia, MD 21044
Telephone: (410) 531-1900
NPI issued: 6 January 2011 (15 years ago)
Record updated: 6 January 2011 (15 years ago)
NPI status: NPI active as reported by CMS 2026-09
Metro area: Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD (metropolitan area, Howard County)
State: Maryland (348 records statewide)
Map position: Census address match (rooftop level)
Snapshot: NPPES data dissemination file, 14 September 2026

What the Record Tells You

Howard Radiology, the trading name of Howard Open MRI LLC, is an NPI registry record for an MRI centre at 11055 Little Patuxent Pkwy, Suite L9 in Columbia, Maryland 21044. CMS issued NPI 1356645220 on 6 January 2011, and the organisation last updated its own entry on 6 January 2011. 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.

Columbia sits in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metropolitan area (Howard County), which has 139 imaging-centre records on the Maryland side in the September 2026 file, 7 of them with the MRI code, out of 348 across Maryland. The nearest alternatives in the registry are Chesapeake Medical Imaging (0.3 miles, Columbia), Charter Radiology, LLC (0.3 miles, Columbia) and Imperial Valley Radiology Medical Group (1.1 miles, Columbia), with 2 more within 1.5 miles.

For a cash-pay benchmark, our Maryland freestanding-centre estimate is $700 to $1,900 for a typical single-region MRI. At Maryland hospitals the cash price is measured rather than estimated: $247 to $1,832 for a brain MRI, median $513, from 16 of the 23 Maryland hospitals whose own price files we have read, out of 43 in the state, files dated to June 2026. This centre's own prices are not in the registry: call (410) 531-1900 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 11055 Little Patuxent Pkwy, straight-line distance. Rows without a link are name-classified radiology organisations or records outside a metro page.

Centre	City	Distance	Type	Phone (registry)
Chesapeake Medical Imaging	Columbia, MD	0.3 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(410) 644-1880
Charter Radiology, LLC	Columbia, MD	0.3 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(443) 917-2855
Imperial Valley Radiology Medical Group	Columbia, MD	1.1 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(559) 455-4009
Chesapeake Medical Imaging	Columbia, MD	1.5 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(410) 343-4337
Advanced Radiology P A	Columbia, MD	1.5 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(443) 436-1100

Where it sits

Howard Radiology in amber, with the 5 nearest registry records in teal. Boundary drawn: Howard 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 Maryland: 16 hospitals measured

Freestanding imaging centre, estimated

$700 to $1,900

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

Hospital outpatient, measured

$247 to $1,832

Median $513 cash against a median gross charge of $556, from 16 of the 23 Maryland hospitals whose own price files we have read, out of 43 in the state, files dated to June 2026.

Maryland uses all-payer hospital rate setting; cash-pay still high at academic 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 1 hospital publishes a “cash price” that is its chargemaster restated rather than a discount, reaching $2,126; 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.

Browse and compare

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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 Howard Radiology.