MRI near Bulahdelah, NSW

Bulahdelah does not have an MRI scanner. The closest is Hunter Imaging Salamander Bay, 38 km away in Salamander Bay. After that, the options are PRP Diagnostic Imaging Salamander Bay in Salamander Bay (38 km) and Manning Hospital in Taree (60 km).

There are 111 MRI practices within 200 km of Bulahdelah altogether — the five listed are simply the nearest.

All of them are on the Australian Government's list of Medicare-eligible MRI locations (last updated 17 February 2026), so a Medicare rebate is possible for scans done there. Whether your scan attracts one depends on the item your referral asks for and on who wrote it — GPs can request a limited set of MRI items and specialists can request more.

Locally, Bulahdelah is covered for x-ray. A referral for that can be done here: everything Bulahdelah has.

For scale, 161 of the 1544 towns we hold in NSW sit further from MRI than Bulahdelah does.

Across New South Wales, 204 practices are accredited for MRI and 84 of those are outside the capital. That is the arithmetic behind the distance above — MRI is not spread evenly, and Bulahdelah sits in one of the gaps.

Accreditation windows: Hunter Imaging Salamander Bay to 30 November 2026, PRP Diagnostic Imaging Salamander Bay to 31 July 2027 and Manning Hospital to 30 June 2027. We drop a modality the day its accreditation lapses, so if it is listed above it is current.

Of the five practices listed, all publish a phone number, all have a website and two list opening hours. A phone call before you travel is worth it: a practice can be accredited for a scan and still not run it daily.