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Clay Healthcare Services, LLC

4001 W Sam Houston Pkwy N, Suite 110, Houston, TX 77043

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Registry Record

NPI
1639416688
Type
MRI centre and radiology clinic
Taxonomy codes
261QM1200X (Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) clinic/center); 261QR0200X (Radiology clinic/center)
Practice location
4001 W Sam Houston Pkwy N, Suite 110, Houston, TX 77043
Telephone
(713) 996-0900
NPI issued
10 January 2013 (13 years ago)
Record updated
8 September 2023 (3 years ago)
NPI status
NPI active as reported by CMS 2026-09
Metro area
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX (metropolitan area, Harris County)
State
Texas (1,450 records statewide)
Same address
Bluebonnet Healthcare Services INC
Map position
ZIP-code centroid for 77043 (address not matched by the Census geocoder); distances approximate
Snapshot
NPPES data dissemination file, 14 September 2026

What the Record Tells You

Clay Healthcare Services, LLC is an NPI registry record for an MRI centre and radiology clinic at 4001 W Sam Houston Pkwy N, Suite 110 in Houston, Texas 77043. CMS issued NPI 1639416688 on 10 January 2013, and the organisation last updated its own entry on 8 September 2023. That was 3 years ago; the details are probably still current, but confirm the address when you book.

The record carries 2 imaging taxonomy codes: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) clinic/center (261QM1200X) and Radiology clinic/center (261QR0200X). 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. One other imaging record shares this street address: Bluebonnet Healthcare Services INC.

Houston sits in the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metropolitan area (Harris County), which has 438 imaging-centre records on the Texas side in the September 2026 file, 75 of them with the MRI code, out of 1,450 across Texas. The nearest alternatives in the registry are Bluebonnet Healthcare Services INC (0.0 miles, Houston), Image America I, LLC (1.9 miles, Houston) and One Step Diagnostic IX LP (1.9 miles, Houston), with 2 more within 2.0 miles.

For a cash-pay benchmark, our Texas freestanding-centre estimate is $500 to $1,400 for a typical single-region MRI. At Texas hospitals the cash price is measured rather than estimated: $236 to $10,390 for a brain MRI, median $2,190, from 125 of the 194 Texas hospitals whose own price files we have read, out of 285 in the state, files dated to September 2026. Published hospital cash prices in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands run from $230.91 (Harris Health Ben Taub Hospital) to $20,243.66 (HCA Houston Healthcare Northwest) for a brain MRI without contrast, from the hospitals' federal transparency files. This centre's own prices are not in the registry: call (713) 996-0900 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 4001 W Sam Houston Pkwy N, straight-line distance, measured from the ZIP centroid. Rows without a link are name-classified radiology organisations or records outside a metro page.

CentreCityDistanceTypePhone (registry)
Bluebonnet Healthcare Services INCHouston, TX0.0 miRadiology clinic(713) 417-2094
Image America I, LLCHouston, TX1.9 miRadiology clinic(281) 598-8383
One Step Diagnostic IX LPHouston, TX1.9 miRadiology clinic(713) 461-2000
Offsite Imaging Management Consultants, L.L.C.Houston, TX1.9 miRadiology org. (name-classified)(713) 461-3574
Gilan Clinical Laboratory LLCHouston, TX2.0 miRadiology clinic(832) 241-9704
Where it sits
Locator map showing Clay Healthcare Services, LLC at 4001 W Sam Houston Pkwy N, Suite 110, Houston, TX 77043 and the 5 nearest imaging centresBluebonnet Healthcare Services INCImage America I, LLCOne Step Diagnostic IX LPOffsite Imaging Management Consultants, L.L.C.Gilan Clinical Laboratory LLCClay Healthcare Services, LLC

Clay Healthcare Services, LLC in amber, with the 5 nearest registry records in teal. Boundary drawn: Harris 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 Texas: 125 hospitals measured

Freestanding imaging centre, estimated

$500 to $1,400
Our own estimate. No imaging operator publishes a per-state cash price.

Hospital outpatient, measured

$236 to $10,390
Median $2,190 cash against a median gross charge of $4,174, from 125 of the 194 Texas hospitals whose own price files we have read, out of 285 in the state, files dated to September 2026.

Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio all competitive; Houston Methodist and MD Anderson at the top. 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 42 hospitals publish a “cash price” that is its chargemaster restated rather than a discount, reaching $23,252; those are kept out of the band above and counted here instead. 4 more hospitals list this code at prices more than three times apart in the same file, from $124 to $362, 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).

Parsed hospital cash prices for Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands (brain MRI, CPT 70551): Harris Health Ben Taub Hospital $230.91; Harris Health Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital $230.91; Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center $1,312.32 and 19 more. Full table on the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands metro page.

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 Clay Healthcare Services, LLC.

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Updated 2026-06-11