Radiology clinicNPI registry, September 2026

Carolinas Healthcare System Imaging

Registered legal name: Union Medical Services, LLC

103 Stanly Pkwy Ste E, Locust, NC 28097

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Practice-location phone (registry)

(980) 323-7000

As recorded by the organisation in NPPES, last updated 23 January 2018. Not verified by us.

Registry Record

NPI: 1306344577
Type: Radiology clinic/centre
Taxonomy codes: 261QR0200X (Radiology clinic/center)
Practice location: 103 Stanly Pkwy Ste E, Locust, NC 28097
Telephone: (980) 323-7000
NPI issued: 23 January 2018 (8 years ago)
Record updated: 23 January 2018 (8 years ago)
NPI status: NPI active as reported by CMS 2026-09
Metro area: Albemarle, NC (micropolitan area, Stanly County)
State: North Carolina (266 records statewide)
Subpart of: Union Medical Services, LLC
Same address: Atrium Health Imaging Locust
Map position: Census address match (rooftop level)
Snapshot: NPPES data dissemination file, 14 September 2026

What the Record Tells You

Carolinas Healthcare System Imaging, the trading name of Union Medical Services, LLC, is an NPI registry record for a radiology clinic/centre at 103 Stanly Pkwy Ste E in Locust, North Carolina 28097. CMS issued NPI 1306344577 on 23 January 2018, and the organisation last updated its own entry on 23 January 2018. That was 8 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. CMS records it as a subpart of Union Medical Services, LLC, so pricing may follow the parent's policies. One other imaging record shares this street address: Atrium Health Imaging Locust.

Locust sits in the Albemarle, NC micropolitan area (Stanly County), which has 3 imaging-centre records on the North Carolina side in the September 2026 file, 1 of them with the MRI code, out of 266 across North Carolina. The nearest alternatives in the registry are Atrium Health Imaging Locust (0.0 miles, Locust), Novant Health Imaging Cabarrus (12 miles, Charlotte) and Novant Health Imaging Copperfield (16 miles, Concord), with 2 more within 16 miles.

For a cash-pay benchmark, our North Carolina freestanding-centre estimate is $480 to $1,300 for a typical single-region MRI. At North Carolina hospitals the cash price is measured rather than estimated: $876 to $4,364 for a brain MRI, median $1,883, from 40 of the 47 North Carolina hospitals whose own price files we have read, out of 80 in the state, files dated to September 2026. This centre's own prices are not in the registry: call (980) 323-7000 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 103 Stanly Pkwy Ste E, straight-line distance. Rows without a link are name-classified radiology organisations or records outside a metro page.

Centre	City	Distance	Type	Phone (registry)
Atrium Health Imaging Locust	Locust, NC	0.0 mi	MRI + radiology	(704) 781-0003
Novant Health Imaging Cabarrus	Charlotte, NC	12 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(704) 262-9885
Novant Health Imaging Copperfield	Concord, NC	16 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(704) 323-3799
All Diagnostics	Concord, NC	16 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(704) 784-3588
Stanly County Imaging PLLC	Albemarle, NC	16 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(704) 984-4385

Where it sits

Carolinas Healthcare System Imaging in amber, with the 5 nearest registry records in teal. Boundary drawn: no boundary (fitted to the plotted centres).

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Cash-Price Benchmark

Cash price for a brain MRI in North Carolina: 40 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

$876 to $4,364

Median $1,883 cash against a median gross charge of $3,735, from 40 of the 47 North Carolina hospitals whose own price files we have read, out of 80 in the state, files dated to September 2026.

Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro all competitive; Duke and UNC are large systems. 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 $5,781; those are kept out of the band above and counted here instead. 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 Carolinas Healthcare System Imaging.