Cairns Hospital/Medical Imaging Department

Cairns Hospital/Medical Imaging Department is an accredited imaging practice at Medical Imaging, 165 Esplanade Rd, Cairns QLD 4870. The register records it under practice number 2166, accredited for x-ray, ultrasound, CT, MRI, nuclear medicine and PET, with the current accreditation running from 13 June 2003 to 31 October 2027.

Medicare-eligible MRI. This practice appears on the Australian Government's list of Medicare-eligible MRI locations (list last updated 17 February 2026). That means a Medicare rebate is possible for an MRI done here. Whether your scan attracts one depends on the MBS item, who wrote your referral, and the practice's own billing policy — ask when you book.

Phone 07 4226 0000 and their website. These contact details come from healthdirect's directory rather than the practice itself, so confirm them on the call.

There are three accredited practices in Cairns; which one suits you is a question of hours, wait and what they charge, not of accreditation.

If this one does not suit, Queensland X-Ray Cairns Private Hospital is 0 km away in Cairns City. Queensland X-Ray 189 Lake Street in Cairns is the next closest at 0 km. I-MED Radiology Cairns is 1 km away in Cairns. A referral is not usually tied to a single practice — ask if you would rather go elsewhere.

Sources for this page: the Medicare LSPN register and healthdirect's directory, plus the practice's own website.

A PET scan is the scarcest scan in Australia — the scanners sit almost entirely in capital cities and a handful of large regional hospitals.