DEXA Scans in Glendale, AZ

Our verified Glendale network includes four SimonMed locations on the city's north side: SimonMed Arrowhead on West Union Hills Drive, SimonMed Creekside at 7200 W. Bell Rd near Arrowhead Towne Center, and two on West Thunderbird Road — Glendale Fountains at 5620 W. Thunderbird and Thunderbird II at 5410 W. Thunderbird, flanking the Banner Thunderbird medical corridor. Text or call (786) 420-6630 to book the closest one.

Pricing through Dexascans.com is flat and transparent: $149 for a full body composition analysis, $199 for a bone density test, and $249 for the complete health package covering body composition, bone density, and visceral fat. HSA and FSA cards are accepted, and there are no hidden facility fees — typically a fraction of hospital imaging department rates.

For body composition, no — book directly and show up with nothing but an appointment. For a bone density study you want billed to insurance, plan on getting a physician's order first; doctors affiliated with Banner Thunderbird Medical Center and Abrazo Arrowhead Campus order these routinely. Prefer to skip the office visit? A self-pay bone density scan requires no referral.

Bone density DEXA is commonly covered when medically necessary — postmenopausal screening, osteoporosis monitoring, or medication follow-up ordered by your physician, whether they practice at Banner Thunderbird, Abrazo Arrowhead, or an independent West Valley clinic. Body composition scans are wellness services and almost always self-pay, starting at $149 with HSA/FSA accepted.

Very. The X-ray dose is extremely low — on the order of one-tenth of a chest X-ray and less than the natural background radiation of an ordinary day. Nothing touches you, nothing is injected, and you simply lie on an open table for 10-15 minutes while the scanner arm passes overhead.

Four things no bathroom scale can: total and regional body fat percentage, lean muscle mass mapped across your arms, legs, and trunk, your visceral fat level, and your bone mineral density. Whether you train at an Arrowhead Ranch gym or study at Midwestern University on 59th Avenue, it's the baseline every other health metric builds on.

About half an hour start to finish. Check-in is quick, the scan itself takes 10-15 minutes, and your complete report — body fat, lean mass, visceral fat, bone density — arrives within 24 hours. Easy to fit in before a shift or on the way to Westgate.

Yes, and by a wide margin. Bioelectrical impedance readings drift 5-8% with hydration, which matters in the Phoenix-area heat — test after a sweaty summer workout and the number lies. DEXA reads tissue directly with X-ray at about ±1-2% accuracy, so a June scan and a December scan are genuinely comparable.

The four SimonMed sites in north Glendale draw clients from well beyond the city line — Peoria and Sun City to the north and west, Surprise out toward the Loop 303, and north Phoenix neighborhoods just across the border. If you're anywhere in the northwest Valley, text or call (786) 420-6630 and we'll route you to the nearest scanner.

DEXA — it's the method sports science labs validate everything else against. Glendale athletes put it to work in different ways: trail runners pacing the ridgeline loops at Thunderbird Conservation Park track lean mass through training cycles, airmen from nearby Luke Air Force Base verify body-fat numbers ahead of assessments, and masters lifters confirm muscle retention year over year.