MRI Cost in Fort Worth: Published Prices and Honest Gaps (2026)
Fort Worth shares the DFW imaging market with Dallas but publishes even less of it. Here is what is genuinely posted with figures, what the market average looks like per the region's own imaging chains, and exactly what to ask the quote-only providers.
Key insight: The published Fort Worth floor is $263 to $280 all-in. Gateway, one of the region's own chains, pegs the wider DFW market at $400 to $12,000 with an $899 average. The spread between those numbers is decided by one thing: where your order gets sent.
Published Cash Prices in Fort Worth
The only per-scan Fort Worth rates we found actually published, verified 3 August 2026. They apply at participating centres booked through the RadiologyAssist programme, all-inclusive with the radiologist report; programme terms apply.
| Exam | Published cash price |
|---|---|
| MRI Cervical Spine (no contrast) | $263.22 |
| MRI Lumbar Spine (no contrast) | $264.10 |
| MRI Abdomen (no contrast) | $270.30 |
| MRI Brain (no contrast) | $270.76 |
| MRI Knee (no contrast) | $279.38 |
Source: radiologyassist.com Fort Worth MRI rates page, retrieved 3 August 2026. Contrast scans cost more; without-contrast rates shown.
Honest note: unlike Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio, we did not retrieve hospital transparency cash figures specific to Fort Worth for this page, so we quote none. Texas Health Resources, JPS Health Network, Baylor Scott & White All Saints, Medical City and Cook Children's each publish price files and estimator tools under the federal Hospital Price Transparency rule; check the tool for your specific hospital and scan. Neighbouring Dallas figures (Methodist Dallas: $2,324 cash brain MRI) show the pattern to expect.
Hospital vs Imaging Center in Fort Worth
The decision framework is the same as everywhere in Texas, and it is worth more than any discount code:
- Ask your doctor to send the order to a freestanding centre
For routine outpatient scans, an accredited freestanding centre is clinically equivalent and the DFW price gap between hospitals and independents runs into the thousands. Most Fort Worth doctors will redirect the order if you ask.
- Call two or three centres and benchmark against $263 to $280
The published programme rates are what a competitive Fort Worth cash price looks like. A phone quote in the $400 to $700 band is normal for freestanding centres; a quote above roughly $2,000 means you are paying hospital-level pricing at an outpatient facility, keep calling.
- If it must be a hospital, check its transparency tool first
Every Fort Worth hospital is required to publish its cash prices. Look up your exact scan (the CPT code is on your order: brain without contrast is 70551, lumbar spine 72148) before you book, and ask billing for the self-pay rate in writing.
Fort Worth Imaging Providers: All Quote-Only
None of these publishes a cash rate card we could verify (checked 3 August 2026); we do not invent figures for them.
Envision Imaging
Quote-onlyFort Worth locations including North Fort Worth and Bryant Irvin. MRI, CT and ultrasound; cash prices quoted on request.
Gateway Diagnostic Imaging
Quote-onlyFort Worth site within its 13-location DFW network. Publishes market context ($400 to $12,000 DFW range, $899 average) and offers self-pay rates and financial assistance, but no per-scan rate card.
Touchstone Medical Imaging
Quote-onlyDFW network including Tarrant County sites. States scans average 40% to 60% less than hospitals; customised self-pay pricing quoted on request.
Cash-Pay Networks Serving Fort Worth
Green Imaging
Quote per orderGreen Imaging is a Texas-founded (Houston, 2011), physician-owned cash-pay network coordinating scans at partner facilities, including in the DFW metro. It quotes one bundled price per imaging order, facility fee and radiologist read included, paid upfront with no bill afterwards. It publishes no rate card, so like every Fort Worth chain it is quote-only; its bundled quote is one more number to set against the $263 to $280 published benchmark.
How Green Imaging's pricing worksMRI in Fort Worth, Frequently Asked Questions
Verified published rates in Fort Worth start at $263.22 (cervical spine, no contrast) through the RadiologyAssist booking programme, with brain, lumbar, abdomen and knee scans all listed between $263 and $280, radiologist report included. Fort Worth's imaging chains, Envision, Gateway and Touchstone, publish no rate cards and quote by phone; typical freestanding-centre quotes land in our national $400 to $2,000 sourced range. Gateway Diagnostic Imaging, which has a Fort Worth location, publishes market context: DFW MRI runs $400 to $12,000 with an average of $899.
Sources, all retrieved 3 August 2026: radiologyassist.com/facility-locations-rates/locations-by-city/mri/fort-worth-tx-mri/ (published programme rates, radiologist report included); gatewaydiagnostic.com/how-much-does-an-mri-cost-in-dallas-fort-worth/ (DFW $400-$12,000 range, $899 average; self-pay rates on request); envisionimaging.com and envrad.com (Fort Worth locations, no published prices); touchstoneimaging.com (40-60% claim, custom self-pay pricing, no rate card); cms.gov Hospital Price Transparency rule; greenimaging.net (quote-per-order model). No Fort Worth hospital figures are quoted because none were retrieved. National ranges: our methodology.