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Radiology clinicNPI registry, September 2026

Lake Area Imaging and Diagnostics, A Department of Hca Houston Healthcare Conroe

Registered legal name: Chca Conroe, L.P.

18057 Highway 105 W Ste 250, Montgomery, TX 77356

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As recorded by the organisation in NPPES, last updated 17 June 2026. Not verified by us.

Registry Record

NPI
1215862479
Other NPIs
1447184627 (same organisation, same address; folded into this listing)
Type
Radiology clinic/centre
Taxonomy codes
261QR0200X (Radiology clinic/center)
Practice location
18057 Highway 105 W Ste 250, Montgomery, TX 77356
Telephone
(936) 538-2999
NPI issued
17 June 2026 (0 years ago)
Record updated
17 June 2026 (0 years ago)
NPI status
NPI active as reported by CMS 2026-09
Metro area
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX (metropolitan area, Montgomery County)
State
Texas (1,450 records statewide)
Subpart of
Chca Conroe, L.P.
Map position
Census address match (rooftop level)
Snapshot
NPPES data dissemination file, 14 September 2026

What the Record Tells You

Lake Area Imaging and Diagnostics, A Department of Hca Houston Healthcare Conroe, the trading name of Chca Conroe, L.P., is an NPI registry record for a radiology clinic/centre at 18057 Highway 105 W Ste 250 in Montgomery, Texas 77356. CMS issued NPI 1215862479 on 17 June 2026, and the organisation last updated its own entry on 17 June 2026. That is recent, so the contact details are likely current.

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 Chca Conroe, L.P., so pricing may follow the parent's policies. CMS also holds a second NPI for the same organisation at this address (1447184627), folded into this listing.

Montgomery sits in the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metropolitan area (Montgomery County), which has 438 imaging-centre records on the Texas side in the September 2026 file, 75 of them with the MRI code, out of 1,450 across Texas. The nearest alternatives in the registry are Texas Rapidrad Imaging LLC (0.0 miles, Montgomery), Alliance MRI Woodforest (7.3 miles, Montgomery) and Alliance MRI Montgomery County (8.8 miles, Willis), with 2 more within 10 miles.

For a cash-pay benchmark, our Texas freestanding-centre estimate is $500 to $1,400 for a typical single-region MRI. At Texas hospitals the cash price is measured rather than estimated: $236 to $10,390 for a brain MRI, median $2,190, from 125 of the 194 Texas hospitals whose own price files we have read, out of 285 in the state, files dated to September 2026. Published hospital cash prices in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands run from $230.91 (Harris Health Ben Taub Hospital) to $20,243.66 (HCA Houston Healthcare Northwest) for a brain MRI without contrast, from the hospitals' federal transparency files. This centre's own prices are not in the registry: call (936) 538-2999 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 18057 Highway 105 W Ste 250, straight-line distance. Rows without a link are name-classified radiology organisations or records outside a metro page.

CentreCityDistanceTypePhone (registry)
Texas Rapidrad Imaging LLCMontgomery, TX0.0 miRadiology clinic(281) 712-8033
Alliance MRI WoodforestMontgomery, TX7.3 miMRI + radiology(713) 468-3842
Alliance MRI Montgomery CountyWillis, TX8.8 miMRI + radiology(713) 955-5705
3083 Imaging LLCConroe, TX9.3 miRadiology clinic(713) 922-6718
Memorial Hermann Imaging Centers-Conroe CenterConroe, TX10 miRadiology clinic(936) 442-2633
Where it sits
Locator map showing Lake Area Imaging and Diagnostics, A Department of Hca Houston Healthcare Conroe at 18057 Highway 105 W Ste 250, Montgomery, TX 77356 and the 5 nearest imaging centresTexas Rapidrad Imaging LLCAlliance MRI WoodforestAlliance MRI Montgomery County3083 Imaging LLCMemorial Hermann Imaging Centers-Conroe CenterLake Area Imaging and Diagnostics, A Department of Hca Houston Healthcare Conroe

Lake Area Imaging and Diagnostics, A Department of Hca Houston Healthcare Conroe in amber, with the 5 nearest registry records in teal. Boundary drawn: Montgomery 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 Texas: 125 hospitals measured

Freestanding imaging centre, estimated

$500 to $1,400
Our own estimate. No imaging operator publishes a per-state cash price.

Hospital outpatient, measured

$236 to $10,390
Median $2,190 cash against a median gross charge of $4,174, from 125 of the 194 Texas hospitals whose own price files we have read, out of 285 in the state, files dated to September 2026.

Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio all competitive; Houston Methodist and MD Anderson at the top. 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 42 hospitals publish a “cash price” that is its chargemaster restated rather than a discount, reaching $23,252; those are kept out of the band above and counted here instead. 4 more hospitals list this code at prices more than three times apart in the same file, from $124 to $362, 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).

Parsed hospital cash prices for Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands (brain MRI, CPT 70551): Harris Health Ben Taub Hospital $230.91; Harris Health Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital $230.91; Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center $1,312.32 and 19 more. Full table on the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands metro page.

What to ask when you call

  1. 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.
  2. Scanner field strength (1.5T or 3T) and whether it is closed, wide-bore or open.
  3. ACR or IAC accreditation, and who reads the images. The registry cannot tell you either.
  4. Whether they accept an order from a telehealth referral if you have no local doctor.

Full list: cheap MRI, good MRI checklist.

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 Lake Area Imaging and Diagnostics, A Department of Hca Houston Healthcare Conroe.

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Updated 2026-06-11