MRI centreNPI registry, September 2026

Physicians First Choice Diagnostics Center

735 Kasota Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414

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Practice-location phone (registry)

(612) 623-1010

As recorded by the organisation in NPPES, last updated 29 April 2008. Not verified by us.

Registry Record

NPI: 1922272673
Type: MRI centre
Taxonomy codes: 261QM1200X (Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) clinic/center)
Practice location: 735 Kasota Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414
Telephone: (612) 623-1010
NPI issued: 14 April 2008 (18 years ago)
Record updated: 29 April 2008 (18 years ago)
NPI status: NPI active as reported by CMS 2026-09
Metro area: Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI (metropolitan area, Hennepin County)
State: Minnesota (97 records statewide)
Map position: Census address match (rooftop level)
Snapshot: NPPES data dissemination file, 14 September 2026

What the Record Tells You

Physicians First Choice Diagnostics Center is an NPI registry record for an MRI centre at 735 Kasota Ave SE in Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414. CMS issued NPI 1922272673 on 14 April 2008, and the organisation last updated its own entry on 29 April 2008. That was 18 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.

Minneapolis sits in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metropolitan area (Hennepin County), which has 74 imaging-centre records on the Minnesota side in the September 2026 file, 28 of them with the MRI code, out of 97 across Minnesota. The nearest alternatives in the registry are Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology Clinic (1.0 miles, Minneapolis), Minneapolis Orthopaedics, LTD (2.4 miles, Minneapolis) and Children's Health Care (2.9 miles, Minneapolis), with 2 more within 3.3 miles.

For a cash-pay benchmark, our Minnesota freestanding-centre estimate is $550 to $1,500 for a typical single-region MRI. At Minnesota hospitals the cash price is measured rather than estimated: $232 to $4,120 for a brain MRI, median $1,281, from 35 of the 38 Minnesota hospitals whose own price files we have read, out of 45 in the state, files dated to August 2026. This centre's own prices are not in the registry: call (612) 623-1010 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 735 Kasota Ave SE, straight-line distance. Rows without a link are name-classified radiology organisations or records outside a metro page.

Centre	City	Distance	Type	Phone (registry)
Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology Clinic	Minneapolis, MN	1.0 mi	Radiology clinic	(612) 626-6529
Minneapolis Orthopaedics, LTD	Minneapolis, MN	2.4 mi	MRI centre	(612) 333-5000
Children's Health Care	Minneapolis, MN	2.9 mi	Radiology clinic	(612) 813-6000
Summit Orthopedics, LTD.	Saint Paul, MN	2.9 mi	MRI centre	(651) 968-5201
Axis Medical Center	Minneapolis, MN	3.3 mi	Radiology clinic	(612) 823-2947

Where it sits

Physicians First Choice Diagnostics Center 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 Minnesota: 35 hospitals measured

Freestanding imaging centre, estimated

$550 to $1,500

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

Hospital outpatient, measured

$232 to $4,120

Median $1,281 cash against a median gross charge of $2,475, from 35 of the 38 Minnesota hospitals whose own price files we have read, out of 45 in the state, files dated to August 2026.

Mayo Clinic premium; Twin Cities competitive otherwise. 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. 2 more hospitals list this code at prices more than three times apart in the same file, from $118 to $524, 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 Physicians First Choice Diagnostics Center.