Northwest Radiology, Broken Hill

Northwest Radiology runs imaging services from 304 Sulphide St, Broken Hill NSW 2880. Its Medicare Location Specific Practice Number is 10079, and the register lists it as accredited for x-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI, with the current accreditation running from 1 July 2020 to 30 November 2026.

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.

their website. We take contact details from the practice's own listings where we can.

There are three accredited practices in Broken Hill; 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 PRP Diagnostic Imaging Dubbo in Dubbo, about 674 km away and the nearest PET is Dubbo Health Service in Dubbo, about 676 km away.

Broken Hill Base Hospital Radiology Department in Broken Hill is the closest alternative, 0 km from here. Thrive Medical in Broken Hill is the next closest at 2 km. Cobar Health Services X-Ray Department is 415 km away in Cobar. Unless your referral says otherwise you can usually take it wherever suits you.

This page is assembled from the Medicare LSPN register, plus the practice's own website — if any of it is out of date, the practice is right and we are wrong.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