Hunter Imaging Charlestown

Hunter Imaging Charlestown is at Se 4 20 Smith St, Charlestown NSW 2290, and it is on the Medicare accreditation register. The register records it under practice number 6641, accredited for x-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI — accredited since 21 December 2012, current to 30 June 2027. It carries more than one practice number in the register (6641 and 12510), which usually means separate departments at the one address; we show them as one place because that is how you would visit.

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. What you actually pay still depends on the item number on your referral and this practice's billing policy, so ask before the appointment.

Phone 13 23 36, their website and listed hours mon: 08:30-17:00; tue: 08:30-17:00; wed: 08:30-17:00; thu: 08:30-17:00; fri: 08:30-17:00. Contact details here follow the practice's own listings.

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

The register does not cover it for nuclear medicine and PET, so for those nuclear medicine and PET are both at Hunter Imaging Gateshead PET and MRI Centre in Gateshead, about 2 km away.

If this one does not suit, Prp Diagnostic Imaging Charlestown is 0 km away in Charlestown. Lumus Imaging Charlestown in Charlestown is the next closest at 0 km. Hunter Imaging Gateshead is 2 km away in Gateshead. 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 a hand-verified check, plus the practice's own website.

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