Elective specialist and diagnostic waits in the Australian public system are commonly measured in months, not days. In Seoul the same imaging is scheduled in three days. The methodology line under the comparison table names every source this page draws on and the date each was read. Individual figures carry their own notes where there is more to say.
Reported average for the South Australian public MRI waitlist, over 750 patients, read 2026-08-06. One state rather than the country: Australia publishes no national diagnostic-imaging wait statistic, because the AIHW publishes elective surgery waits rather than imaging queues.
Public patients, 2024-25 (AIHW). It starts at being listed for surgery, not at referral, and Australia publishes no figure for the interval before that.
Booked and completed inside one visit.
Same-day consult on preliminary findings; the full report follows in two to three weeks depending on the centre. KMI publishes about two weeks; Hanaro publishes no figure at all (measured 2026-07-28). You are not in Korea waiting for it. Reports are sent by email (or by post, at one centre) once ready, after you have already flown home, so a longer report does not mean a longer trip.
The methodology line under the comparison table names every source this page draws on and the date each was read. Individual figures carry their own notes where there is more to say.
Australia has no national diagnostic-imaging wait statistic: the AIHW publishes elective surgery waits rather than imaging queues. The 16 weeks here is the reported average for the South Australian public MRI waitlist, over 750 patients, and it is one state rather than the country. Read 2026-08-06. The colonoscopy figure is the national median of 62 days from a positive bowel-screening test to diagnostic assessment, AIHW, National Bowel Cancer Screening Program monitoring report 2025 (https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/cancer-screening/nbcsp-monitoring-2025/contents/performance-of-the-screening-program/diagnosis), read 2026-08-11. Colonoscopy is a non-surgical procedure and sits outside Australia's elective-surgery waiting-time series, so this screening pathway is the measured one. No Australian publisher produces a referral-to-treatment median: the AIHW measures from being added to a waiting list to admission, and the Australian Medical Association states there is no consistent national methodology for the interval between GP referral and being listed. That row therefore reports what is published, the AIHW's elective-surgery median of 53 days for public patients in 2024-25 (45 days across all patients, 28 for the privately insured), from AIHW, Elective surgery waiting times (https://www.aihw.gov.au/hospitals/topics/elective-surgery/waiting-times), read 2026-08-11. It is not comparable in scope to Canada's referral-to-treatment median, because it begins at listing rather than at referral. Note also that an Australian scan bulk billed with a referral can cost nothing at all, so the gap this page shows is the wait and not the price. Korea side: a Korean partner centre's published non-covered (비급여) price list, the itemised document 의료법 제45조 requires a clinic to publish, read 2026-08-05. A brain MRI is ₩319,000 and a chest and rib CT is ₩131,000. Home side: self-pay prices as published by imaging providers and price guides in each market, read 2026-08-06. Converted at 1 USD = ₩1,413 and the same day's cross rates (open.er-api.com, 2026-08-19) (https://open.er-api.com/v6/latest/USD), measured 2026-08-06.
Screen, scan, report: the five steps from first message to English report in hand.
Three fixed-price tiers, quoted in your currency before you book.
What's in the report file, who signs it, and the honest limits of a result from a clinic your GP hasn't heard of.
