MRI centreNPI registry, September 2026

Open Air MRI of Laurel

Registered legal name: South Central Regional Open MRI, LLC

227 S 13TH Ave, Laurel, MS 39440

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Practice-location phone (registry)

(601) 428-5026

As recorded by the organisation in NPPES, last updated 23 September 2024. Not verified by us.

Registry Record

NPI: 1528096112
Type: MRI centre
Taxonomy codes: 261QM1200X (Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) clinic/center); also 293D00000X
Practice location: 227 S 13TH Ave, Laurel, MS 39440
Telephone: (601) 428-5026
NPI issued: 30 June 2006 (20 years ago)
Record updated: 23 September 2024 (1 years ago)
NPI status: NPI active as reported by CMS 2026-09
Metro area: Laurel, MS (micropolitan area, Jones County)
State: Mississippi (92 records statewide)
Map position: Census address match (rooftop level)
Snapshot: NPPES data dissemination file, 14 September 2026

What the Record Tells You

Open Air MRI of Laurel, the trading name of South Central Regional Open MRI, LLC, is an NPI registry record for an MRI centre at 227 S 13TH Ave in Laurel, Mississippi 39440. CMS issued NPI 1528096112 on 30 June 2006, and the organisation last updated its own entry on 23 September 2024. That is recent, so the contact details are likely current.

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. It also holds one other taxonomy code (293D00000X).

Laurel sits in the Laurel, MS micropolitan area (Jones County), which has 3 imaging-centre records on the Mississippi side in the September 2026 file, 1 of them with the MRI code, out of 92 across Mississippi. The nearest alternatives in the registry are Radiology Associates, PA (0.2 miles, Laurel), South Central Radiology Physicians (0.2 miles, Laurel) and Comprehensive Radiology Services, PLLC (28 miles, Hattiesburg), with 2 more within 30 miles.

For a cash-pay benchmark, our Mississippi freestanding-centre estimate is $420 to $1,000 for a typical single-region MRI. At Mississippi hospitals the cash price is measured rather than estimated: $374 to $2,875 for a brain MRI, median $1,079, from 17 of the 33 Mississippi hospitals whose own price files we have read, out of 59 in the state, files dated to September 2026. This centre's own prices are not in the registry: call (601) 428-5026 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 227 S 13TH Ave, straight-line distance. Rows without a link are name-classified radiology organisations or records outside a metro page.

Centre	City	Distance	Type	Phone (registry)
Radiology Associates, PA	Laurel, MS	0.2 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(601) 428-0100
South Central Radiology Physicians	Laurel, MS	0.2 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(601) 399-6169
Comprehensive Radiology Services, PLLC	Hattiesburg, MS	28 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(601) 450-0521
Radiology	Hattiesburg, MS	28 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(601) 268-5707
Southern Medical Imaging	Hattiesburg, MS	30 mi	MRI centre	(601) 579-4463

Where it sits

Open Air MRI of Laurel 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 Mississippi: 17 hospitals measured

Freestanding imaging centre, estimated

$420 to $1,000

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

Hospital outpatient, measured

$374 to $2,875

Median $1,079 cash against a median gross charge of $1,888, from 17 of the 33 Mississippi hospitals whose own price files we have read, out of 59 in the state, files dated to September 2026.

Among the lowest-cost states for MRI in the US. 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 $1,738; those are kept out of the band above and counted here instead. 6 more hospitals list this code at prices more than three times apart in the same file, from $17 to $1,892, 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 Open Air MRI of Laurel.