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Radiology clinicNPI registry, September 2026

Axis Medical Center

Registered legal name: Universal Medical Services INC

1801 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55403

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As recorded by the organisation in NPPES, last updated 9 June 2008. Not verified by us.

Registry Record

NPI
1831358324
Type
Radiology clinic/centre
Taxonomy codes
261QR0200X (Radiology clinic/center)
Practice location
1801 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55403
Telephone
(612) 823-2947
NPI issued
9 June 2008 (18 years ago)
Record updated
9 June 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

Axis Medical Center, the trading name of Universal Medical Services INC, is an NPI registry record for a radiology clinic/centre at 1801 Nicollet Ave in Minneapolis, Minnesota 55403. CMS issued NPI 1831358324 on 9 June 2008, and the organisation last updated its own entry on 9 June 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: Radiology clinic/center (261QR0200X). It registered as a radiology clinic without the MRI-specific code, so ask which modalities it operates before assuming an MRI is available.

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 Minneapolis Orthopaedics, LTD (0.9 miles, Minneapolis), Children's Health Care (0.9 miles, Minneapolis) and Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology Clinic (2.3 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) 823-2947 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 1801 Nicollet Ave, straight-line distance. Rows without a link are name-classified radiology organisations or records outside a metro page.

CentreCityDistanceTypePhone (registry)
Minneapolis Orthopaedics, LTDMinneapolis, MN0.9 miMRI centre(612) 333-5000
Children's Health CareMinneapolis, MN0.9 miRadiology clinic(612) 813-6000
Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology ClinicMinneapolis, MN2.3 miRadiology clinic(612) 626-6529
Rayus RadiologySt Louis Park, MN3.3 miRadiology org. (name-classified)(952) 541-1840
Center for Diagnostic ImagingSt Louis Park, MN3.3 miRadiology org. (name-classified)(952) 525-6338
Where it sits
Locator map showing Axis Medical Center at 1801 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55403 and the 5 nearest imaging centresMinneapolis Orthopaedics, LTDChildren's Health CareOral and Maxillofacial Radiology ClinicRayus RadiologyAxis Medical Center

Axis Medical Center in amber, with the 5 nearest registry records in teal. Boundary drawn: Hennepin 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 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

  1. 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.
  2. Scanner field strength (1.5T or 3T) and whether it is closed, wide-bore or open.
  3. ACR or IAC accreditation, and who reads the images. The registry cannot tell you either.
  4. Whether they accept an order from a telehealth referral if you have no local doctor.

Full list: cheap MRI, good MRI checklist.

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 Axis Medical Center.

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Updated 2026-06-11