MRI near Mount Barker, WA

Mount Barker has no MRI of its own. The nearest one is at I-MED Radiology Albany Health Campus in Albany, about 47 km away, roughly 42 minutes by road. After that, the options are I-MED Radiology Albany in Albany (48 km).

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.

Mount Barker 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 I-MED Radiology Albany Health Campus in Albany, 47 km away.

For scale, 120 of the 559 towns we hold in WA sit further from MRI than Mount Barker does.

Western Australia has 46 MRI practices in total, 10 of them outside the capital. The machines cluster where the population is, which is why the nearest one to Mount Barker is where it is.

The register has these accreditations running to: I-MED Radiology Albany Health Campus to 30 September 2027 and I-MED Radiology Albany to 30 June 2027. We drop a modality the day its accreditation lapses, so if it is listed above it is current.

Of the two practices listed, all publish a phone number, all have a website and two 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.