MRI near Goondiwindi, QLD

Goondiwindi has no MRI of its own. The nearest one is at Alpenglow Inverell Diagnostic Imaging in Inverell, about 157 km away, roughly 2 hr 38 min by road. After that, the options are Toowoomba Hospital Medical Imaging in Toowoomba (194 km) and Queensland X-Ray South Toowoomba in South Toowoomba (194 km).

Six practices within 200 km of Goondiwindi are accredited for MRI in total; the five above are the closest by straight-line distance from the centre of town.

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.

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

For scale, 46 of the 1062 towns we hold in QLD sit further from MRI than Goondiwindi does.

A 157 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 Goondiwindi — rosters like that do not appear in the accreditation register.

Across Queensland, 140 practices are accredited for MRI and 71 of those are outside the capital. That is the arithmetic behind the distance above — MRI is not spread evenly, and Goondiwindi sits in one of the gaps.

The register has these accreditations running to: Alpenglow Inverell Diagnostic Imaging to 30 September 2027, Toowoomba Hospital Medical Imaging to 30 November 2026 and Queensland X-Ray South Toowoomba to 30 June 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. Ring before you go rather than assuming — hours move, and not every accredited scan runs every day.