Thrive Medical, Broken Hill

Thrive Medical is at Crystal Medical And Health, 170 Crystal St, Broken Hill NSW 2880, and it is on the Medicare accreditation register. The register records it under practice number 9906, accredited for x-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI — accredited since 22 February 2020, current 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. 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 08 8087 9383 and their website. Those details are the ones the practice publishes itself.

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 673 km away and the nearest PET is Dubbo Health Service in Dubbo, about 675 km away.

Northwest Radiology in Broken Hill is the closest alternative, 2 km from here. Broken Hill Base Hospital Radiology Department in Broken Hill is the next closest at 2 km. Cobar Health Services X-Ray Department is 414 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assembled from the Medicare LSPN register and a hand-verified check, plus the practice's own website — if any of it is out of date, the practice is right and we are wrong.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.