MRI near Kalbarri, WA

Kalbarri has no MRI of its own. The nearest one is at I-MED Radiology Sjog Healthcare Campus in Geraldton, about 127 km away, roughly 1 hr 59 min by road. It is the only MRI service within 200 km of Kalbarri.

I-MED Radiology Sjog Healthcare Campus is 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.

Kalbarri 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 TeleMed Geraldton in Geraldton, 126 km away.

For scale, 85 of the 559 towns we hold in WA sit further from MRI than Kalbarri does.

There is no way around the distance: 127 km each way. Before you commit to it, two things are worth a phone call — your state's patient travel assistance scheme, which exists for people in exactly this position, and whether any service closer to Kalbarri visits on a roster. The register cannot show us visiting services.

Across Western Australia, 46 practices are accredited for MRI and 10 of those are outside the capital. That is the arithmetic behind the distance above — MRI is not spread evenly, and Kalbarri sits in one of the gaps.

Accreditation windows: I-MED Radiology Sjog Healthcare Campus to 30 November 2026. We drop a modality the day its accreditation lapses, so if it is listed above it is current.

Of the one practice 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.