MRI near Hay, NSW

If you need MRI, it will not be in Hay — nothing here is accredited for it. The nearest one is at I-MED Radiology Griffith Medical Specialist Centre in Griffith, about 113 km away, roughly 1 hr 44 min by road. After that, the options are Xplore Radiology — Griffith in Griffith (113 km) and I-MED Radiology Echuca in Echuca (181 km).

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

For scale, 30 of the 1544 towns we hold in NSW sit further from MRI than Hay does.

There is no way around the distance: 113 km each way. Before you commit to it, two things are worth a phone call — your state's patient travel assistance scheme, which exists for people in exactly this position, and whether any service closer to Hay visits on a roster. The register cannot show us visiting services.

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 Hay sits in one of the gaps.

Accreditation windows: I-MED Radiology Griffith Medical Specialist Centre to 30 June 2027, Xplore Radiology — Griffith to 31 October 2027 and I-MED Radiology Echuca to 31 October 2027. We drop a modality the day its accreditation lapses, so if it is listed above it is current.

Of the three 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.