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North Carolina, NPI registry September 2026

Imaging Centers in Marion, NC: 4 Registry Records

Marion is a micropolitan area within the Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC combined area. The September 2026 NPI file lists 4 imaging organisations on the North Carolina side (McDowell County): 3 under the MRI or radiology clinic codes (1 with the MRI-specific code) and 1 diagnostic-radiology organisation classified by name. They spread across 2 cities, led by Marion (3) and Nebo (1). 2 records were updated in 2024 or later and 2 have not been touched since before 2020.

Price context: a single-region MRI in North Carolina typically runs $480 to $1,300 cash at a freestanding centre and $1,700 to $4,900 at a hospital. The registry holds no prices; call with the CPT code and ask for the self-pay rate.

Registry records
4
3 with a centre page
MRI-specific code
1
261QM1200X on the record
Cities
2
McDowell County
Address-matched
100%
rest placed at ZIP centroid

Hospital Cash Prices in Marion

Federal price-transparency files (45 CFR 180) oblige every hospital to publish its discounted cash price per CPT code. Where we have parsed the files for this metro, the figures are below; they are the benchmark the freestanding centres beat.

Hospital cash prices for Marion: not broken out by metro yet. We publish hospital MRI cash prices only from a hospital's own federal transparency file, and this metro has not been broken out separately. Statewide we have read them: a brain MRI runs $876 to $4,364 cash, median $1,883, from 40 of the 47 North Carolina hospitals whose own price files we have read, out of 80 in the state, files dated to September 2026. The freestanding-centre range below is still our own estimate.

Marion map
Locator map of Marion, NC showing 4 imaging centre locations drawn over 1 county (McDowell County)McDowell DEXA Scan, A Department of Mission Hospital McDowellMcDowell MRI, L.L.C.McDowell Radiology, A Department of Mission Hospital McDowell

4 of 4 records are plotted. Hover a row to find it on the map, or use your location to sort the list by distance.

address matched by the Census geocoder placed at the ZIP centroid, so it marks the area and not the door

Map data: OpenFreeMap, © OpenMapTiles, data from OpenStreetMap contributors. Boundaries: US Census Bureau cartographic boundary files.

4 Imaging Centres in Marion

Every North Carolina-side registry record for Marion. Centres with a dedicated page are linked; name-classified radiology organisations and records without a Census address match are shown as rows. Phones are the practice-location numbers in the registry, as of the record's last update. Hover or tap a row to find it on the map.

Centre (registry name)CityTypePhone (registry)Last updated
McDowell DEXA Scan, A Department of Mission Hospital McDowell
Legal name: Mh Mission Hospital McDowell, Lllp
MarionRadiology clinic(828) 659-51712026-06
McDowell MRI, L.L.C.MarionMRI centre(828) 659-51002008-01
McDowell Radiology, A Department of Mission Hospital McDowell
Legal name: Mh Mission Hospital McDowell, Lllp
NeboRadiology clinic(828) 652-63262026-06
Mh McDowell Imaging, Lllp
Name-classified registry row
MarionRadiology org. (name-classified)(828) 659-50002018-09

Nearest Centres Outside Marion

Marion has only 4 registry records, so the nearest centres beyond its county line are worth a call too. Distances are straight-line from the centre of the listed records.

  • Sonography Services INC
    Morganton, NC · 17 mi · Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC
  • Sonocare, LLC
    Morganton, NC · 17 mi · Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC
  • Imaging Partners PLLC
    Morganton, NC · 17 mi · Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC
  • Mission Imaging Services, LLC
    Morganton, NC · 19 mi · Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC
  • Mh Mission Imaging, Lllp
    Morganton, NC · 19 mi · Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC
  • Blue Ridge Radiology
    Morganton, NC · 19 mi · Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC
  • Brhc Radiology Practice
    Morganton, NC · 20 mi · Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC
  • Brhc Radiology Practice
    Morganton, NC · 20 mi · Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC

Nearby Metro Areas

North Carolina Cash-Price Benchmark

Cash price for a brain MRI in North Carolina: 40 hospitals measured

Freestanding imaging centre, estimated

$480 to $1,300
Our own estimate. No imaging operator publishes a per-state cash price.

Hospital outpatient, measured

$876 to $4,364
Median $1,883 cash against a median gross charge of $3,735, from 40 of the 47 North Carolina hospitals whose own price files we have read, out of 80 in the state, files dated to September 2026.

Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro all competitive; Duke and UNC are large systems. 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 4 hospitals publish a “cash price” that is its chargemaster restated rather than a discount, reaching $5,781; 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).

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.

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Updated 2026-06-11