Horizon Open MRI of NW Houston LLC
Registered legal name: Medfund LLC
17482 Northwest Fwy, Houston, TX 77040
DirectionsGoogle MapsApple Mapsto the ZIP centroid, not the exact doorRegistry Record
- NPI
- 1285637074
- Type
- MRI centre
- Taxonomy codes
- 261QM1200X (Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) clinic/center)
- Practice location
- 17482 Northwest Fwy, Houston, TX 77040
- Telephone
- (713) 856-5955
- NPI issued
- 24 May 2005 (21 years ago)
- Record updated
- 22 August 2020 (6 years ago)
- NPI status
- NPI active as reported by CMS 2026-09
- Metro area
- Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX (metropolitan area, Harris County)
- State
- Texas (1,450 records statewide)
- Sibling NPIs
- Texas MRI of Houston (1114443983); A1 Imaging of Houston (1568622611); Horizon Houston (1629216510)
- Map position
- ZIP-code centroid for 77040 (address not matched by the Census geocoder); distances approximate
- Snapshot
- NPPES data dissemination file, 14 September 2026
What the Record Tells You
Horizon Open MRI of NW Houston LLC, the trading name of Medfund LLC, is an NPI registry record for an MRI centre at 17482 Northwest Fwy in Houston, Texas 77040. CMS issued NPI 1285637074 on 24 May 2005, and the organisation last updated its own entry on 22 August 2020. That was 6 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: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) clinic/center (261QM1200X). The MRI-specific code means the organisation registered itself as a magnetic resonance imaging centre, the strongest signal the registry gives that a scanner is on site. The same business holds 3 sibling registrations at this address under the names Texas MRI of Houston (NPI 1114443983), A1 Imaging of Houston (NPI 1568622611) and Horizon Houston (NPI 1629216510); they are covered by this page rather than given their own.
Houston sits in the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metropolitan area (Harris 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 Radiology West (2.7 miles, Houston) and Scan-IT Diagnostic Services (3.3 miles, Houston).
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 (713) 856-5955 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 2 closest imaging records to 17482 Northwest Fwy, straight-line distance, measured from the ZIP centroid. Rows without a link are name-classified radiology organisations or records outside a metro page.
| Centre | City | Distance | Type | Phone (registry) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Radiology West | Houston, TX | 2.7 mi | Radiology org. (name-classified) | (713) 461-3573 |
| Scan-IT Diagnostic Services | Houston, TX | 3.3 mi | MRI + radiology | (281) 807-3825 |
Horizon Open MRI of NW Houston LLC in amber, with the 2 nearest registry records in teal. Boundary drawn: Harris County outline.
Map data: OpenFreeMap, © OpenMapTiles, data from OpenStreetMap contributors. Boundaries: US Census Bureau cartographic boundary files.
Cash-Price Benchmark
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
- 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.
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 Horizon Open MRI of NW Houston LLC.