MRI near Moree, NSW

There is no MRI scanner in Moree. The nearest one is at Alpenglow Inverell Diagnostic Imaging in Inverell, about 128 km away, roughly 1 hr 56 min by road. It is the only MRI service within 200 km of Moree.

Alpenglow Inverell Diagnostic Imaging is 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.

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

For scale, 22 of the 1544 towns we hold in NSW sit further from MRI than Moree does.

A 128 km trip is a day out of your life, not an errand. Ask your referring doctor about the patient travel assistance scheme in your state, and ask the nearest hospital whether a visiting service ever covers Moree — rosters like that do not appear in the accreditation register.

New South Wales has 204 MRI practices in total, 84 of them outside the capital. The machines cluster where the population is, which is why the nearest one to Moree is where it is.

The register has these accreditations running to: Alpenglow Inverell Diagnostic Imaging to 30 September 2027. We drop a modality the day its accreditation lapses, so if it is listed above it is current.

Of the one practice listed, all publish a phone number, all have a website and none publishes opening hours we could confirm. Ring before you go rather than assuming — hours move, and not every accredited scan runs every day.