The Royal Melbourne Hospital - Medical Imaging

The Royal Melbourne Hospital - Medical Imaging runs imaging services from Radiology Department The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Grattan St, Parkville VIC 3052. Its Medicare Location Specific Practice Number is 2415, and the register lists it as accredited for x-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI. That accreditation has run since 13 June 2003 and is current to 30 September 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 9342 7000 and their website. These contact details come from healthdirect's directory rather than the practice itself, so confirm them on the call.

It is one of four accredited practices in Parkville, so it is worth ringing more than one if the wait matters to you.

For nuclear medicine and PET you would need somewhere else: nuclear medicine and PET are both at The Royal Melbourne Hospital (Melbourne Health) in Royal Melb Hosp, about 0 km away.

The nearest other accredited practice is The Royal Melbourne Hospital (Melbourne Health) in Royal Melb Hosp, about 0 km away. Pauline Gandel Women's Imaging Centre, Royal Women's Hospital in Parkville is the next closest at 0 km. Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre - Cancer Imaging is 0 km away in Melbourne. 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.

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.