Manning Hospital, Taree

Manning Hospital runs imaging services from Hunter New England Area Hlth, 26 York St, Taree NSW 2430. Practice number 726 in the Medicare register covers it for x-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI, with the current accreditation running from 21 May 2003 to 30 June 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 02 6515 1873 and their website. We take contact details from the practice's own listings where we can.

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

For nuclear medicine and PET you would need somewhere else: the nearest nuclear medicine is Lumus Imaging Taree Nuclear Medicine in Taree, about 4 km away and the nearest PET is Lumus Imaging Highfields in Port Macquarie, about 65 km away.

Lumus Imaging Taree in Taree is the closest alternative, 0 km from here. Lumus Imaging Taree Nuclear Medicine in Taree is the next closest at 4 km. Lumus Imaging Mayo Private Hospital is 4 km away in Taree. Unless your referral says otherwise you can usually take it wherever suits you.

What we hold about this site comes from 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.