MRI near Heathcote, VIC

Heathcote has no MRI of its own. The nearest one is at Bendigo Radiology Hamilton in Hamilton, about 42 km away. After that, the options are Bendigo Radiology Percy Street Echuca in Echuca (42 km) and Bendigo Radiology Bendigo Health in Bendigo (43 km).

129 practices within 200 km of Heathcote are accredited for MRI in total; the five above are the closest by straight-line distance from the centre of town.

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.

Heathcote is not without imaging — x-ray is available in town. The town page lists everything Heathcote has.

For scale, 78 of the 850 towns we hold in VIC sit further from MRI than Heathcote does.

Across Victoria, 140 practices are accredited for MRI and 40 of those are outside the capital. That is the arithmetic behind the distance above — MRI is not spread evenly, and Heathcote sits in one of the gaps.

The register has these accreditations running to: Bendigo Radiology Hamilton to 31 August 2027, Bendigo Radiology Percy Street Echuca to 30 September 2027 and Bendigo Radiology Bendigo Health to 31 October 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.