Gippsland Lakes Medical Imaging, Bairnsdale

Gippsland Lakes Medical Imaging is at 341 Main St, Bairnsdale VIC 3875, and it is on the Medicare accreditation register. Its Medicare Location Specific Practice Number is 13079, and the register lists it as accredited for x-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI — accredited since 2 February 2026, current to 31 July 2027.

MRI accredited, not Medicare-listed. This practice has an accredited MRI unit, but it does not appear on the Government's Medicare-eligible MRI list. An MRI here may not attract a Medicare rebate. Ask about the out-of-pocket cost before you book.

Phone 03 5152 7805 and their website. We take contact details from the practice's own listings where we can.

It is one of three accredited practices in Bairnsdale, so it is worth ringing more than one if the wait matters to you.

The register does not cover it for nuclear medicine and PET, so for those the nearest nuclear medicine is Central Gippsland Health — Sale in Sale, about 56 km away and the nearest PET is I-MED Radiology Traralgon Latrobe Regional Hospital in Traralgon, about 109 km away.

Bairnsdale Regional Health Service in Bairnsdale is the closest alternative, 1 km from here. Bairnsdale Regional Health Service in Bairnsdale is the next closest at 1 km. Gippsland Lakes Medical Imaging (Lakes Entrance) is 34 km away in Lakes Entrance. Unless your referral says otherwise you can usually take it wherever suits you.

This page is assembled from the Medicare LSPN register and a hand-verified check, plus the practice's own website — if any of it is out of date, the practice is right and we are wrong.

An MRI uses a magnetic field rather than x-rays, and the machines are expensive, so far fewer places have one.