DEXA scans in Irvine

The Breen Center for Optimal Health, at 17910 Sky Park Circle, Suite 109 in Irvine, CA, runs DEXA scans for the Irvine area. Call (877) 721-0047 to schedule your appointment.

There is no single Irvine 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 Irvine, but ask when you book, since some hospital departments require one.

Often, yes, but only for bone density. If a physician orders the scan as medically necessary, say after a referral from a doctor at a health system in Orange County like Hoag Hospital Irvine & Kaiser Permanente Irvine, insurance usually covers it. Body composition scans booked for fitness reasons are self-pay. HSA and FSA cards work for both.

Besides Irvine, we book scans for people in Santa Ana, Anaheim, Laguna Hills and Mission Viejo, and across the rest of Orange County (949 area).

Yes. Nothing is injected and nothing encloses you: at The Breen Center for Optimal Health 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 Irvine 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, including the bone-density study a Hoag Hospital Irvine & Kaiser Permanente Irvine physician would order on its own.

Plan on 30 minutes in Irvine — check-in, then 10-15 minutes on the table at The Breen Center for Optimal Health. Results usually follow within a day or two.

No difference at all. "DXA" is the abbreviation radiology departments like Hoag Hospital Irvine & Kaiser Permanente Irvine use; "DEXA" is the one patients search for. Both name dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, and both describe what you would book in Irvine.