DEXA scans in Apache Junction

SimonMed - Apache Junction, at 2080 West Southern Avenue, Bldg C in Apache Junction, AZ, runs DEXA scans for the Apache Junction area. Call (480) 474-5960 to schedule your appointment.

There is no single Apache Junction price: clinics publish their own rates, and cash-pay DEXA scans generally land between $99 and $250 by scan type. That still usually undercuts the $300-plus hospital imaging departments bill for comparable scans. Ask the clinic for its current rate when scheduling — HSA/FSA funds work at most.

Mostly when you want insurance to pay: an insurance-billed bone density exam needs your physician to order it first. Self-pay scans usually need no referral in Apache Junction, but ask when you book, since some hospital departments require one.

Often, yes, but only for bone density. If a physician in the Apache Junction area orders the scan as medically necessary, insurance usually covers it. Body composition scans booked for fitness reasons are self-pay in Apache Junction, typically $99–$250 depending on the clinic. HSA and FSA cards work for both.

Yes. Nothing is injected and nothing encloses you: at SimonMed - Apache Junction you lie on an open table for 10-15 minutes while the scanner arm passes overhead. The X-ray dose is roughly a tenth of a chest X-ray.

Where a Apache Junction clinic offers body composition as well as bone density, one scan produces your body fat percentage, a limb-by-limb lean mass breakdown, a visceral fat reading, and bone mineral density. That combination is why a DEXA report replaces a stack of separate measurements.

Plan on 30 minutes in Apache Junction — check-in, then 10-15 minutes on the table at SimonMed - Apache Junction. Results usually follow within a day or two.

No difference at all. "DXA" is the abbreviation radiology departments in the Apache Junction area use; "DEXA" is the one patients search for. Both name dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, and both describe what you would book in Apache Junction.