Radiology clinicNPI registry, September 2026

Essentia Health Lakes Imaging

Registered legal name: St Joseph's Medical Center

2019 S 6TH St, Brainerd, MN 56401

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Practice-location phone (registry)

(218) 822-6736

As recorded by the organisation in NPPES, last updated 27 February 2024. Not verified by us.

Registry Record

NPI: 1639648348
Type: Radiology clinic/centre
Taxonomy codes: 261QR0200X (Radiology clinic/center)
Practice location: 2019 S 6TH St, Brainerd, MN 56401
Telephone: (218) 822-6736
NPI issued: 26 November 2018 (7 years ago)
Record updated: 27 February 2024 (2 years ago)
NPI status: NPI active as reported by CMS 2026-09
Metro area: Brainerd, MN (micropolitan area, Crow Wing County)
State: Minnesota (97 records statewide)
Subpart of: Essentia Health
Same address: Lakes Imaging LLC and Diagnostic Imaging Specialists, P.A.
Map position: Census address match (rooftop level)
Snapshot: NPPES data dissemination file, 14 September 2026

What the Record Tells You

Essentia Health Lakes Imaging, the trading name of St Joseph's Medical Center, is an NPI registry record for a radiology clinic/centre at 2019 S 6TH St in Brainerd, Minnesota 56401. CMS issued NPI 1639648348 on 26 November 2018, and the organisation last updated its own entry on 27 February 2024. That was 2 years ago; the details are probably still current, but confirm the address when you book.

The record carries one imaging taxonomy code: 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. CMS records it as a subpart of Essentia Health, so pricing may follow the parent's policies. 2 other imaging records share this street address: Lakes Imaging LLC and Diagnostic Imaging Specialists, P.A..

Brainerd sits in the Brainerd, MN micropolitan area (Crow Wing County), which has 4 imaging-centre records on the Minnesota side in the September 2026 file, 0 of them with the MRI code, out of 97 across Minnesota. The nearest alternatives in the registry are Lakes Imaging LLC (0.0 miles, Brainerd), Diagnostic Imaging Specialists, P.A. (0.0 miles, Brainerd) and Minnesota Radiology Institute (16 miles, Crosby), with 2 more within 48 miles.

For a cash-pay benchmark, our Minnesota freestanding-centre estimate is $550 to $1,500 for a typical single-region MRI. At Minnesota hospitals the cash price is measured rather than estimated: $232 to $4,120 for a brain MRI, median $1,281, from 35 of the 38 Minnesota hospitals whose own price files we have read, out of 45 in the state, files dated to August 2026. This centre's own prices are not in the registry: call (218) 822-6736 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 2019 S 6TH St, straight-line distance. Rows without a link are name-classified radiology organisations or records outside a metro page.

Centre	City	Distance	Type	Phone (registry)
Lakes Imaging LLC	Brainerd, MN	0.0 mi	Radiology clinic	(218) 822-4242
Diagnostic Imaging Specialists, P.A.	Brainerd, MN	0.0 mi	Radiology clinic	(218) 822-4242
Minnesota Radiology Institute	Crosby, MN	16 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(218) 546-7000
Rayus Radiology	Sartell, MN	48 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(320) 251-0609
Mobile Imaging Services, LLC	Sartell, MN	48 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(320) 534-2100

Where it sits

Essentia Health Lakes Imaging in amber, with the 5 nearest registry records in teal. Boundary drawn: no boundary (fitted to the plotted centres).

Map data: OpenFreeMap, © OpenMapTiles, data from OpenStreetMap contributors.

Cash-Price Benchmark

Cash price for a brain MRI in Minnesota: 35 hospitals measured

Freestanding imaging centre, estimated

$550 to $1,500

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

Hospital outpatient, measured

$232 to $4,120

Median $1,281 cash against a median gross charge of $2,475, from 35 of the 38 Minnesota hospitals whose own price files we have read, out of 45 in the state, files dated to August 2026.

Mayo Clinic premium; Twin Cities competitive otherwise. 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. 2 more hospitals list this code at prices more than three times apart in the same file, from $118 to $524, 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.

Browse and compare

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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 Essentia Health Lakes Imaging.