MRI near Castlemaine, VIC

Castlemaine does not have an MRI scanner. The nearest one is at Vision Radiology Kangaroo Flat in Kangaroo Flat, about 30 km away. After that, the options are High Street X-Ray in Bendigo (34 km) and Bendigo Radiology Hamilton in Hamilton (36 km).

There are 127 MRI practices within 200 km of Castlemaine 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.

What Castlemaine 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 Castlemaine has.

For scale, 123 of the 850 towns we hold in VIC sit further from MRI than Castlemaine does.

Victoria has 140 MRI practices in total, 40 of them outside the capital. The machines cluster where the population is, which is why the nearest one to Castlemaine is where it is.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: Vision Radiology Kangaroo Flat to 31 July 2027, High Street X-Ray to 31 July 2027 and Bendigo Radiology Hamilton 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 four 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.