MRI near Cowra, NSW

There is no MRI scanner in Cowra. The nearest one is at Alpenglow Young Diagnostic Imaging in Young, about 65 km away, roughly 58 minutes by road. After that, the options are Lumus Imaging Bloomfield in Orange (68 km) and Western NSW Medical Imaging Services - Orange in Bloomfield (68 km).

There are 56 MRI practices within 200 km of Cowra 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, Cowra is covered for x-ray, ultrasound and CT. A referral for one of those can be done here: everything Cowra has.

To put 65 km in context: of the 1544 NSW towns we hold, 79 are further than Cowra 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 Cowra sits in one of the gaps.

Accreditation windows: Alpenglow Young Diagnostic Imaging to 30 November 2027, Lumus Imaging Bloomfield to 31 July 2027 and Western NSW Medical Imaging Services - Orange to 31 August 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 none publishes opening hours we could confirm. A phone call before you travel is worth it: a practice can be accredited for a scan and still not run it daily.