MRI near Sarina, QLD

If you need MRI, it will not be in Sarina — nothing here is accredited for it. The closest is Queensland X-Ray Fourways Mackay, 30 km away in West Mackay — about 31 minutes in the car. After that, the options are Medical Imaging Department Mackay Base Hospital in Mackay (31 km) and Queensland X-Ray Pty Ltd in North Mackay (33 km).

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.

Sarina 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 Queensland X-Ray Fourways Mackay in West Mackay, 30 km away.

To put 30 km in context: of the 1062 QLD towns we hold, 215 are further than Sarina from a MRI service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

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 Sarina sits in one of the gaps.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: Queensland X-Ray Fourways Mackay to 31 August 2026, Medical Imaging Department Mackay Base Hospital to 31 August 2027 and Queensland X-Ray Pty Ltd 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 one lists opening hours. Ring before you go rather than assuming — hours move, and not every accredited scan runs every day.