MRI near Foster, VIC

No practice in Foster is accredited for MRI. The nearest one is at I-MED Radiology Traralgon Latrobe Regional Hospital in Traralgon, about 54 km away. After that, the options are Imaging Associates Wonthaggi in Wonthaggi (54 km) and Victorian Imaging Specialists in Traralgon (58 km).

There are 117 MRI practices within 200 km of Foster 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.

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

For scale, 54 of the 850 towns we hold in VIC sit further from MRI than Foster 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 Foster is where it is.

The register has these accreditations running to: I-MED Radiology Traralgon Latrobe Regional Hospital to 30 September 2027, Imaging Associates Wonthaggi to 30 November 2026 and Victorian Imaging Specialists 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 four list opening hours. Ring before you go rather than assuming — hours move, and not every accredited scan runs every day.