MRI near Mareeba, QLD

If you need MRI, it will not be in Mareeba — nothing here is accredited for it. The nearest one is at Rural Medical Imaging Atherton in Atherton, about 31 km away, roughly 32 minutes by road. After that, the options are Queensland X-Ray Westcourt in Westcourt (35 km) and North Queensland X-Ray Services (Parramatta Park,Cairns) in Parramatta Park (37 km).

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

The eligible ones are Queensland X-Ray Westcourt, North Queensland X-Ray Services (Parramatta Park,Cairns) and I-MED Radiology Cairns — they appear on the Government's Medicare-eligible MRI list (last updated 17 February 2026). Rural Medical Imaging Atherton runs an accredited MRI unit that is not on the list, so ask what an MRI there would cost you.

What Mareeba does have locally is x-ray, ultrasound and CT. If your referral is for one of those, you do not need to leave town — see everything Mareeba has.

To put 31 km in context: of the 1062 QLD towns we hold, 207 are further than Mareeba from a MRI service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

Queensland has 140 MRI practices in total, 71 of them outside the capital. The machines cluster where the population is, which is why the nearest one to Mareeba is where it is.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: Rural Medical Imaging Atherton to 30 November 2027, Queensland X-Ray Westcourt to 30 June 2027 and North Queensland X-Ray Services (Parramatta Park,Cairns) to 31 May 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.