MRI near Cootamundra, NSW

If you need MRI, it will not be in Cootamundra — nothing here is accredited for it. The closest is Alpenglow Young Diagnostic Imaging, 44 km away in Young — about 43 minutes in the car. After that, the options are Wagga Wagga Base Hospital in Wagga Wagga (81 km) and Imaging Associates Wagga Wagga in Wagga Wagga (81 km).

35 practices within 200 km of Cootamundra are accredited for MRI in total; the five above are the closest by straight-line distance from the centre of town.

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.

Cootamundra is not without imaging — x-ray and ultrasound are available in town. The town page lists everything Cootamundra has.

To put 44 km in context: of the 1544 NSW towns we hold, 135 are further than Cootamundra from a MRI service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

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 Cootamundra sits in one of the gaps.

The register has these accreditations running to: Alpenglow Young Diagnostic Imaging to 30 November 2027, Wagga Wagga Base Hospital to 31 May 2027 and Imaging Associates Wagga Wagga 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. Ring before you go rather than assuming — hours move, and not every accredited scan runs every day.