MRI centreNPI registry, September 2026

Samaritan Imaging Center

Registered legal name: Neurosciences Institute of the Hospital of the Good Samaritan

1245 Wilshire Blvd, 2ND Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90017

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Practice-location phone (registry)

(213) 977-2140

As recorded by the organisation in NPPES, last updated 11 May 2010. Not verified by us.

Registry Record

NPI: 1538258116
Type: MRI centre
Taxonomy codes: 261QM1200X (Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) clinic/center)
Practice location: 1245 Wilshire Blvd, 2ND Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90017
Telephone: (213) 977-2140
NPI issued: 12 October 2006 (19 years ago)
Record updated: 11 May 2010 (16 years ago)
NPI status: NPI active as reported by CMS 2026-09
Metro area: Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA (metropolitan area, Los Angeles County)
State: California (1,513 records statewide)
Map position: Census address match (rooftop level)
Snapshot: NPPES data dissemination file, 14 September 2026

What the Record Tells You

Samaritan Imaging Center, the trading name of Neurosciences Institute of the Hospital of the Good Samaritan, is an NPI registry record for an MRI centre at 1245 Wilshire Blvd, 2ND Floor in Los Angeles, California 90017. CMS issued NPI 1538258116 on 12 October 2006, and the organisation last updated its own entry on 11 May 2010. That was 16 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.

Los Angeles sits in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metropolitan area (Los Angeles County), which has 658 imaging-centre records on the California side in the September 2026 file, 57 of them with the MRI code, out of 1,513 across California. The nearest alternatives in the registry are Accucore Diagnostic Services INC. (0.1 miles, Los Angeles), Wilshire Open MRI (0.1 miles, Los Angeles) and Minoo Heikali Women's Center of Los Angeles (0.1 miles, Los Angeles), with 2 more within 0.2 miles.

For a cash-pay benchmark, our California freestanding-centre estimate is $600 to $1,800 for a typical single-region MRI. At California hospitals the cash price is measured rather than estimated: $153 to $8,216 for a brain MRI, median $2,307, from 122 of the 169 California hospitals whose own price files we have read, out of 276 in the state, files dated to September 2026. This centre's own prices are not in the registry: call (213) 977-2140 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 1245 Wilshire Blvd, straight-line distance. Rows without a link are name-classified radiology organisations or records outside a metro page.

Centre	City	Distance	Type	Phone (registry)
Accucore Diagnostic Services INC.	Los Angeles, CA	0.1 mi	Radiology clinic	(213) 977-9107
Wilshire Open MRI	Los Angeles, CA	0.1 mi	Radiology clinic	(213) 202-5785
Minoo Heikali Women's Center of Los Angeles	Los Angeles, CA	0.1 mi	Radiology clinic	(213) 223-5050
United Medical Radiology Network	Los Angeles, CA	0.1 mi	Radiology clinic	(213) 202-5785
Cad-Ray Imaging Centers	Los Angeles, CA	0.2 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(213) 553-4535

Where it sits

Samaritan Imaging Center in amber, with the 5 nearest registry records in teal. Boundary drawn: Los Angeles 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 California: 122 hospitals measured

Freestanding imaging centre, estimated

$600 to $1,800

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

Hospital outpatient, measured

$153 to $8,216

Median $2,307 cash against a median gross charge of $5,150, from 122 of the 169 California hospitals whose own price files we have read, out of 276 in the state, files dated to September 2026.

Bay Area and LA imaging centres are competitive; UCSF and Cedars hospitals at the top end. 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 24 hospitals publish a “cash price” that is its chargemaster restated rather than a discount, reaching $20,680; those are kept out of the band above and counted here instead. 12 more hospitals list this code at prices more than three times apart in the same file, from $19 to $1,825, 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 [email protected]. This page describes a registry record, not a review or recommendation of Samaritan Imaging Center.