Radiology clinicNPI registry, October 2026

Heartland Imaging Louisville, Dixie Highway

Registered legal name: Heartland Diagnostics, LLC

5227 Dixie Hwy, Louisville, KY 40216

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Practice-location phone (registry)

(502) 429-6500

As recorded by the organisation in NPPES, last updated 16 December 2025. Not verified by us.

Registry Record

NPI: 1497236772
Type: Radiology clinic/centre
Taxonomy codes: 2085R0202X (Diagnostic radiology (physician specialty code carried by an organisation)); 261QR0200X (Radiology clinic/center); also 163W00000X, 363A00000X, 363LA2100X
Practice location: 5227 Dixie Hwy, Louisville, KY 40216
Telephone: (502) 429-6500
NPI issued: 24 August 2018 (8 years ago)
Record updated: 16 December 2025 (0 years ago)
NPI status: NPI active as reported by CMS 2026-10
Metro area: Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN (metropolitan area, Jefferson County)
State: Kentucky (181 records statewide)
Map position: Census address match (rooftop level)
Snapshot: NPPES data dissemination file, 12 October 2026

What the Record Tells You

Heartland Imaging Louisville, Dixie Highway, the trading name of Heartland Diagnostics, LLC, is an NPI registry record for a radiology clinic/centre at 5227 Dixie Hwy in Louisville, Kentucky 40216. CMS issued NPI 1497236772 on 24 August 2018, and the organisation last updated its own entry on 16 December 2025. That is recent, so the contact details are likely current.

The record carries 2 imaging taxonomy codes: Diagnostic radiology (physician specialty code carried by an organisation) (2085R0202X) and Radiology clinic/center (261QR0200X). It registered as a radiology clinic without the MRI-specific code, so ask which modalities it operates before assuming an MRI is available. It also holds 3 other taxonomy codes (163W00000X, 363A00000X, 363LA2100X).

Louisville sits in the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metropolitan area (Jefferson County), which has 45 imaging-centre records on the Kentucky side in the October 2026 file, 8 of them with the MRI code, out of 181 across Kentucky. The nearest alternatives in the registry are Gnd Medical Consultants, LLC (0.7 miles, Louisville), Gnd Radiology Solutions, LLC (0.7 miles, Louisville) and Norton Diagnostic Center - Dixie (1.6 miles, Louisville), with 2 more within 3.1 miles.

For a cash-pay benchmark, our Kentucky freestanding-centre estimate is $470 to $1,200 for a typical single-region MRI. At Kentucky hospitals the cash price is measured rather than estimated: $615 to $4,136 for a brain MRI, median $2,592, from 34 of the 39 Kentucky 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 (502) 429-6500 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.

What Medicare Paid This Centre (2024)

From CMS's public Medicare claims data for Heartland Imaging Louisville, Dixie Highway (NPI 1497236772). Each row is a scan the centre billed to Medicare for at least 11 patients in 2024.

Scan	Medicare-approved amount	Centre's billed charge	National median approved
Head CT without contrast CPT 70450 · 23 Medicare scans	$86	$1,072	$98 (401 centres)
Brain MRI without contrast CPT 70551 · 21 Medicare scans	$171	$2,185	$186 (633 centres)
Brain MRI without and with contrast CPT 70553 · 48 Medicare scans	$261	$2,540	$291 (588 centres)
Chest X-ray, 2 views CPT 71046 · 27 Medicare scans	$30	$76	$31 (743 centres)
Chest CT without contrast CPT 71250 · 43 Medicare scans	$107	$949	$124 (492 centres)
Cervical spine MRI without contrast CPT 72141 · 64 Medicare scans	$160	$2,147	$165 (719 centres)
Lumbar spine MRI without contrast CPT 72148 · 180 Medicare scans	$174	$2,150	$180 (810 centres)
Shoulder or other arm joint MRI without contrast CPT 73221 · 46 Medicare scans	$185	$2,254	$190 (668 centres)
Knee or other leg joint MRI without contrast CPT 73721 · 62 Medicare scans	$179	$2,254	$187 (733 centres)
Abdomen and pelvis CT with contrast CPT 74177 · 21 Medicare scans	$231	$1,561	$286 (419 centres)

The Medicare-approved amount is the full amount Medicare accepts for the scan: its own payment plus the patient's share (usually the 20% coinsurance). The billed charge is the centre's own list price on those claims, which Medicare does not pay. Both are averages over the year, and the national column is the median approved amount across every centre that billed Medicare for that scan outside a hospital.

Neither figure is a self-pay quote. If you are paying cash, ask the centre for its self-pay rate for your CPT code and whether the radiologist's report is included.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider and Service, 2024 data, read 15 October 2026. CMS does not publish a centre and scan with fewer than 11 Medicare patients, so a scan missing here may still be offered.

Nearest Alternatives

The 5 closest imaging records to 5227 Dixie Hwy, straight-line distance. Rows without a link are name-classified radiology organisations or records outside a metro page.

Centre	City	Distance	Type	Phone (registry)
Gnd Medical Consultants, LLC	Louisville, KY	0.7 mi	Radiology clinic	(502) 937-7772
Gnd Radiology Solutions, LLC	Louisville, KY	0.7 mi	Radiology clinic	(502) 276-1409
Norton Diagnostic Center - Dixie	Louisville, KY	1.6 mi	Radiology clinic	(502) 629-8000
VIP Imaging, PLLC	Louisville, KY	2.4 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(655) 847-3768
Stonestreet Medical Imaging	Louisville, KY	3.1 mi	MRI centre	(502) 271-4150

Where it sits

Heartland Imaging Louisville, Dixie Highway in amber, with the 5 nearest registry records in teal. Boundary drawn: Jefferson 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 Kentucky: 34 hospitals measured

Freestanding imaging centre, estimated

$470 to $1,200

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

Hospital outpatient, measured

$615 to $4,136

Median $2,592 cash against a median gross charge of $4,344, from 34 of the 39 Kentucky hospitals whose own price files we have read, out of 59 in the state, files dated to September 2026.

Louisville and Lexington dominate; rural Eastern KY more expensive. 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 3 hospitals publish a “cash price” that is its chargemaster restated rather than a discount, reaching $5,342; those are kept out of the band above and counted here instead. 1 more hospital lists this code at prices more than three times apart in the same file, from $1,580 to $1,580, 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, October 2026 file (NPPES data dissemination file dated 12 October 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 Heartland Imaging Louisville, Dixie Highway.