Radiology clinicNPI registry, September 2026

Cardinal Points Imaging of the Carolinas, Wake Forest

Registered legal name: Pinnacle Health Services of North Carolina, LLC

839 Durham Rd, Suite A, Wake Forest, NC 27587

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Practice-location phone (registry)

(919) 532-3430

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

Registry Record

NPI: 1598959934
Type: Radiology clinic/centre
Taxonomy codes: 2085R0202X (Diagnostic radiology (physician specialty code carried by an organisation)); 261QR0200X (Radiology clinic/center)
Practice location: 839 Durham Rd, Suite A, Wake Forest, NC 27587
Telephone: (919) 532-3430
NPI issued: 29 August 2007 (19 years ago)
Record updated: 16 December 2025 (0 years ago)
NPI status: NPI active as reported by CMS 2026-09
Metro area: Raleigh-Cary, NC (metropolitan area, Wake County)
State: North Carolina (266 records statewide)
Map position: Census address match (rooftop level)
Snapshot: NPPES data dissemination file, 14 September 2026

What the Record Tells You

Cardinal Points Imaging of the Carolinas, Wake Forest, the trading name of Pinnacle Health Services of North Carolina, LLC, is an NPI registry record for a radiology clinic/centre at 839 Durham Rd, Suite A in Wake Forest, North Carolina 27587. CMS issued NPI 1598959934 on 29 August 2007, 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.

Wake Forest sits in the Raleigh-Cary, NC metropolitan area (Wake County), which has 32 imaging-centre records on the North Carolina side in the September 2026 file, 3 of them with the MRI code, out of 266 across North Carolina. The nearest alternatives in the registry are Raleigh Radiology Wakemed Imaging, LLC (1.2 miles, Wake Forest), Carolina Radiology, PA (1.8 miles, Raleigh) and Superior Diagnostic Imaging INC (1.8 miles, Raleigh), with 2 more within 8.7 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 (919) 532-3430 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 839 Durham 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)
Raleigh Radiology Wakemed Imaging, LLC	Wake Forest, NC	1.2 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(919) 781-1437
Carolina Radiology, PA	Raleigh, NC	1.8 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(910) 794-6884
Superior Diagnostic Imaging INC	Raleigh, NC	1.8 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(910) 395-5569
Duke Health Heritage MRI	Wake Forest, NC	2.1 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(919) 385-1570
Athena Radiology Solutions	Raleigh, NC	8.7 mi	Radiology org. (name-classified)	(866) 443-9427

Where it sits

Cardinal Points Imaging of the Carolinas, Wake Forest in amber, with the 5 nearest registry records in teal. Boundary drawn: Wake 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 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 Cardinal Points Imaging of the Carolinas, Wake Forest.