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The Intercommunity MRI Center an Affiliate of Pih

Registered legal name: Pih Health Whittier Hospital

12455 Washington Blvd, Whittier, CA 90602

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Practice-location phone (registry)
As recorded by the organisation in NPPES, last updated 23 June 2021. Not verified by us.

Registry Record

NPI
1881837060
Type
MRI centre
Taxonomy codes
261QM1200X (Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) clinic/center)
Practice location
12455 Washington Blvd, Whittier, CA 90602
Telephone
(562) 698-0811
NPI issued
17 April 2009 (17 years ago)
Record updated
23 June 2021 (5 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)
Subpart of
Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital, INC.
Same address
Insight Imaging - Washington
Map position
ZIP-code centroid for 90602 (address not matched by the Census geocoder); distances approximate
Snapshot
NPPES data dissemination file, 14 September 2026

What the Record Tells You

The Intercommunity MRI Center an Affiliate of Pih, the trading name of Pih Health Whittier Hospital, is an NPI registry record for an MRI centre at 12455 Washington Blvd in Whittier, California 90602. CMS issued NPI 1881837060 on 17 April 2009, and the organisation last updated its own entry on 23 June 2021. That was 5 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. CMS records it as a subpart of Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital, INC., so pricing may follow the parent's policies. One other imaging record shares this street address: Insight Imaging - Washington.

Whittier 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 Insight Imaging - Washington (0.0 miles, Whittier), Lambert Radiology Medical Group, INC (0.0 miles, Whittier) and Whittier Imaging Center (0.8 miles, Whittier), with 2 more within 1.6 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 (562) 698-0811 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 12455 Washington Blvd, 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)
Insight Imaging - WashingtonWhittier, CA0.0 miRadiology org. (name-classified)(562) 698-1261
Lambert Radiology Medical Group, INCWhittier, CA0.0 miRadiology org. (name-classified)(562) 698-0811
Whittier Imaging CenterWhittier, CA0.8 miRadiology org. (name-classified)(562) 789-9770
Colima Radiology Medical Group INCWhittier, CA1.5 miRadiology org. (name-classified)(562) 945-3561
Whittier Breast Imaging Professional Medical CorporationWhittier, CA1.6 miRadiology org. (name-classified)(562) 907-0667
Where it sits
Locator map showing The Intercommunity MRI Center an Affiliate of Pih at 12455 Washington Blvd, Whittier, CA 90602 and the 5 nearest imaging centresInsight Imaging - WashingtonWhittier Imaging CenterColima Radiology Medical Group INCWhittier Breast Imaging Professional Medical CorporationThe Intercommunity MRI Center an Affiliate of Pih

The Intercommunity MRI Center an Affiliate of Pih 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

  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 [email protected]. This page describes a registry record, not a review or recommendation of The Intercommunity MRI Center an Affiliate of Pih.

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Updated 2026-06-11