Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Ballarat

Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Ballarat is an accredited imaging practice at St John Of God Hospital, 101 Drummond St, Ballarat VIC 3350. The register records it under practice number 3817, accredited for x-ray, ultrasound, CT, MRI, nuclear medicine and PET, with the current accreditation running from 8 March 2006 to 31 July 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. 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 03 5304 9000, their website and listed hours 8.00am – 6.00pm monday to friday 9.00am – 12.00pm saturday after hours appointments are available upon request.. Those details are the ones the practice publishes itself.

Ballarat has two accredited practices in total — this is one of them, and a referral is generally not tied to any of them.

If this one does not suit, Grampians Health Ballarat (Ballarat Base Hospital) Radiology is 0 km away in Ballarat. Lumus Imaging Ballarat in Ballarat Central is the next closest at 1 km. Sovereign Radiology Wendouree is 2 km away in Wendouree. A referral is not usually tied to a single practice — ask if you would rather go elsewhere.

The practice's own listings mention Cardiac Imaging, Computed Tomography (CT), Interventional Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, PET/CT and Pregnancy Ultrasound. Those are its words, not the register's, and we show only the ones consistent with what it is accredited for.

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from the Medicare LSPN register and healthdirect's directory, plus the practice's own website — if any of it is out of date, the practice is right and we are wrong.

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