MRI near Manilla, NSW

If you need MRI, it will not be in Manilla — nothing here is accredited for it. The closest is Alpenglow Tamworth Diagnostic Imaging, 41 km away in Tamworth — about 38 minutes in the car. After that, the options are Hunter New England Imaging - Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital in Tamworth (41 km) and Castlereagh Imaging Tamworth (now Hunter Imaging, Sonic Healthcare) in Tamworth (43 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.

Manilla has no accredited imaging practice of its own that we can see in the register, so any scan means travelling. The closest imaging of any kind is Alpenglow Tamworth Diagnostic Imaging in Tamworth, 41 km away.

For scale, 146 of the 1544 towns we hold in NSW sit further from MRI than Manilla 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 Manilla sits in one of the gaps.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: Alpenglow Tamworth Diagnostic Imaging to 31 October 2027, Hunter New England Imaging - Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital to 30 June 2027 and Castlereagh Imaging Tamworth (now Hunter Imaging, Sonic Healthcare) 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 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.