MRI near Old Bar, NSW

Old Bar has no MRI of its own. The nearest one is at Manning Hospital in Taree, about 14 km away, roughly 17 minutes by road. After that, the options are Lumus Imaging Mayo Private Hospital in Taree (18 km) and Lumus Imaging Highfields in Port Macquarie (64 km).

Widen the search to 200 km and there are 41 MRI practices; the closest five are above.

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.

Old Bar 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 Manning Hospital in Taree, 14 km away.

To put 14 km in context: of the 1544 NSW towns we hold, 400 are further than Old Bar from a MRI service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

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 Old Bar is where it is.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: Manning Hospital to 30 June 2027, Lumus Imaging Mayo Private Hospital to 31 August 2027 and Lumus Imaging Highfields to 31 March 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 four list opening hours. Ring before you go rather than assuming — hours move, and not every accredited scan runs every day.