MRI near Hotham Heights, VIC

Hotham Heights has no MRI of its own. The closest is X-Ray Group Wodonga, 100 km away in Wodonga — about 2 hr 11 min in the car. After that, the options are Gippsland Lakes Medical Imaging in Bairnsdale (102 km) and Lake Imaging Wangaratta in Wangaratta (103 km).

Widen the search to 200 km and there are 32 MRI practices; the closest five are above.

The eligible ones are X-Ray Group Wodonga, Northeast Health Wangaratta and Northeast Health Wangaratta (nuclear medicine by I-MED) — they appear on the Government's Medicare-eligible MRI list (last updated 17 February 2026). Gippsland Lakes Medical Imaging and Lake Imaging Wangaratta run an accredited MRI unit that is not on the list, so ask what an MRI there would cost you.

Hotham Heights 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 Beechworth Health Service in Beechworth, 82 km away.

For scale, 8 of the 850 towns we hold in VIC sit further from MRI than Hotham Heights does.

That is a long way to go for a scan, and there is no way to make 100 km shorter. Two things are worth knowing: every state and territory runs a patient travel assistance scheme for people who have to travel for care, and the local health service or your referring doctor can tell you whether you qualify. Some regional hospitals also run visiting services on a roster, which the accreditation register cannot show us — worth one phone call before you plan the trip.

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 Hotham Heights sits in one of the gaps.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: X-Ray Group Wodonga to 30 November 2027, Gippsland Lakes Medical Imaging to 31 July 2027 and Lake Imaging Wangaratta to 31 May 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. A phone call before you travel is worth it: a practice can be accredited for a scan and still not run it daily.