SelfPayRates — hospital cash prices, from the source

MRI of the lower back, no contrast dye in Storm Lake, IA

Cash prices at 1 facility for code 72148, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 22, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between — and —.

HospitalCash price List priceOffFile date
Buena Vista Regional Medical Center STORM LAKE, IA
HC MRI SPINE LUMBAR WO CONTRAST
$1,403.20 $1,754.00 20%
file

Outpatient: lowest $1,403.20, median $1,403.20, highest $1,403.20.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 1 facility here, median $1,403.20. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.

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