MRI near Ocean Shores, NSW

No practice in Ocean Shores is accredited for MRI. The nearest one is at Tweed Valley Hospital — Cudgen in Cudgen, about 27 km away, roughly 30 minutes by road. After that, the options are Lumus Imaging Tweed Heads South in Tweed Heads South (34 km) and Queensland X-Ray Gold Coast Airport Central in Bilinga (39 km).

There are 101 MRI practices within 200 km of Ocean Shores altogether — the five listed are simply the nearest.

The eligible ones are Lumus Imaging Tweed Heads South, South Coast Radiology John Flynn Hospital and North Coast Radiology Ballina — they appear on the Government's Medicare-eligible MRI list (last updated 17 February 2026). Tweed Valley Hospital — Cudgen and Queensland X-Ray Gold Coast Airport Central run an accredited MRI unit that is not on the list, so ask what an MRI there would cost you.

Within 10 km of Ocean Shores, accredited imaging covers x-ray and ultrasound. If your referral is for one of those, see everything Ocean Shores has for the nearby options and their exact addresses.

For scale, 219 of the 1544 towns we hold in NSW sit further from MRI than Ocean Shores does.

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 Ocean Shores is where it is.

The register has these accreditations running to: Tweed Valley Hospital — Cudgen to 31 October 2027, Lumus Imaging Tweed Heads South to 30 June 2027 and Queensland X-Ray Gold Coast Airport Central to 31 July 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.