Radiology clinicNPI registry, October 2026

Emerson Road Imaging Center

Registered legal name: Emerson Road Imaging Center LLC

633 Emerson Rd, Saint Louis, MO 63141

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Practice-location phone (registry)

(314) 991-4674

As recorded by the organisation in NPPES, last updated 25 July 2014. Not verified by us.

Registry Record

NPI: 1851632566
Type: Radiology clinic/centre
Taxonomy codes: 261QR0200X (Radiology clinic/center)
Practice location: 633 Emerson Rd, Saint Louis, MO 63141
Telephone: (314) 991-4674
NPI issued: 5 March 2013 (13 years ago)
Record updated: 25 July 2014 (12 years ago)
NPI status: NPI active as reported by CMS 2026-10
Metro area: St. Louis, MO-IL (metropolitan area, St. Louis County)
State: Missouri (211 records statewide)
Map position: Census address match (rooftop level)
Snapshot: NPPES data dissemination file, 12 October 2026

What the Record Tells You

Emerson Road Imaging Center, the trading name of Emerson Road Imaging Center LLC, is an NPI registry record for a radiology clinic/centre at 633 Emerson Rd in Saint Louis, Missouri 63141. CMS issued NPI 1851632566 on 5 March 2013, and the organisation last updated its own entry on 25 July 2014. That was 12 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: 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.

Saint Louis sits in the St. Louis, MO-IL metropolitan area (St. Louis County), which has 84 imaging-centre records on the Missouri side in the October 2026 file, 14 of them with the MRI code, out of 211 across Missouri. The nearest alternatives in the registry are True Imaging (0.2 miles, Creve Coeur), Berland Diagnostic Imaging Center of Creve Coeur INC (0.3 miles, St Louis) and Berland Diagnostic Imaging Center of Creve Coeur, INC. (0.3 miles, Saint Louis), with 2 more within 0.3 miles.

For a cash-pay benchmark, our Missouri freestanding-centre estimate is $480 to $1,300 for a typical single-region MRI. At Missouri hospitals the cash price is measured rather than estimated: $237 to $2,884 for a brain MRI, median $1,168, from 28 of the 37 Missouri hospitals whose own price files we have read, out of 62 in the state, files dated to July 2026. This centre's own prices are not in the registry: call (314) 991-4674 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 Emerson Road Imaging Center (NPI 1851632566). 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
Lumbar spine MRI without contrast CPT 72148 · 22 Medicare scans	$178	$2,790	$180 (810 centres)
Shoulder or other arm joint MRI without contrast CPT 73221 · 15 Medicare scans	$196	$2,274	$190 (668 centres)
Knee or other leg joint MRI without contrast CPT 73721 · 29 Medicare scans	$199	$2,344	$187 (733 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 633 Emerson Rd, straight-line distance. Rows without a link are name-classified radiology organisations or records outside a metro page.

Centre	City	Distance	Type	Phone (registry)
True Imaging	Creve Coeur, MO	0.2 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(636) 226-5132
Berland Diagnostic Imaging Center of Creve Coeur INC	St Louis, MO	0.3 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(314) 567-1656
Berland Diagnostic Imaging Center of Creve Coeur, INC.	Saint Louis, MO	0.3 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(314) 567-1656
Soundwave Imaging, INC.	Creve Coeur, MO	0.3 mi	Radiology clinic	(314) 276-7028
Ultrasound First LLC	Creve Coeur, MO	0.3 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(314) 782-2034

Where it sits

Emerson Road Imaging Center in amber, with the 5 nearest registry records in teal. Boundary drawn: St. Louis 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 Missouri: 28 hospitals measured

Freestanding imaging centre, estimated

$480 to $1,300

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

Hospital outpatient, measured

$237 to $2,884

Median $1,168 cash against a median gross charge of $2,420, from 28 of the 37 Missouri hospitals whose own price files we have read, out of 62 in the state, files dated to July 2026.

St Louis and Kansas City have competitive independent networks. 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 4 hospitals publish a “cash price” that is its chargemaster restated rather than a discount, reaching $10,840; those are kept out of the band above and counted here instead. 5 more hospitals list this code at prices more than three times apart in the same file, from $278 to $2,709, 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 Emerson Road Imaging Center.