Lake Imaging Sunbury

Lake Imaging Sunbury is at U 1 17-19 Horne St, Sunbury VIC 3429, and it is on the Medicare accreditation register. Practice number 8058 in the Medicare register covers it for x-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI, with the current accreditation running from 7 March 2016 to 30 November 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 9744 5344, their website and listed hours 8.30am – 6.00pm monday to friday 8am – 12.00pm saturday. Contact details here follow the practice's own listings.

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

For nuclear medicine and PET you would need somewhere else: the nearest nuclear medicine is Lake Imaging Melton in Melton, about 18 km away and the nearest PET is Northern Health (Northern Imaging Victoria) — Epping in Epping, about 27 km away.

If this one does not suit, Western Health (Sunbury Day Hospital) is 0 km away in Sunbury. Ris Sunbury in Sunbury is the next closest at 0 km. Sunbury Radiology is 1 km away in Sunbury. 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, Pregnancy Ultrasound, Ultrasound and X-ray. Those are its words, not the register's, and we show only the ones consistent with what it is accredited for.

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