Lumus Imaging Lingard Private Hospital, Merewether

You will find Lumus Imaging Lingard Private Hospital at 23 Merewether St, Merewether NSW 2291. Practice number 6720 in the Medicare register covers it for x-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI, with the current accreditation running from 27 February 2013 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. 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 02 4964 2700, their website and listed hours monday 8 am – 5 pm tuesday 8 am – 5 pm wednesday 8 am – 5 pm thursday 8 am – 5 pm friday 8 am – 5 pm saturday closed sunday closed. Contact details here follow the practice's own listings.

It is the only accredited imaging practice in Merewether that we hold.

For nuclear medicine and PET you would need somewhere else: the nearest nuclear medicine is Prp Diagnostic Imaging Adamstown in Adamstown, about 3 km away and the nearest PET is Hunter New England Imaging - Calvary Mater Newcastle (Waratah) in Waratah, about 6 km away.

The nearest other accredited practice is Hunter Imaging Cooks Hill in Cooks Hill, about 1 km away. Hunter Imaging Newcastle in Newcastle is the next closest at 2 km. Prp Diagnostic Imaging Adamstown is 3 km away in Adamstown. A referral is generally not tied to one clinic, so if the wait here is long it is worth asking whether another practice can see you sooner.

In its own words, the practice offers CT Scan, Interventional Procedures, Ultrasound and X-Ray. We keep provider-published service names inside the scope of what the register accredits, so a chain's national menu never becomes a claim about this branch.

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from the Medicare LSPN register and healthdirect's directory, plus the practice's own website — if any of it is out of date, the practice is right and we are wrong.

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