MRI near Yarrabah, QLD

No practice in Yarrabah is accredited for MRI. The closest is I-MED Radiology Cairns, 16 km away in Cairns. After that, the options are Queensland X-Ray Cairns Private Hospital in Cairns City (16 km) and Queensland X-Ray 189 Lake Street in Cairns (16 km).

There are seven MRI practices within 200 km of Yarrabah altogether — the five listed are simply the nearest.

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.

Yarrabah 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 I-MED Radiology Cairns in Cairns, 16 km away.

For scale, 304 of the 1062 towns we hold in QLD sit further from MRI than Yarrabah does.

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 Yarrabah is where it is.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: I-MED Radiology Cairns to 30 November 2027, Queensland X-Ray Cairns Private Hospital to 31 October 2026 and Queensland X-Ray 189 Lake Street to 31 August 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 three 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.