DEXA scans in Los Angeles

BOD - Body Overview Data, at 1501 Main Street, Suite 102 in Los Angeles, CA, runs DEXA scans for the Los Angeles area. Call (310) 433-1342 to schedule your appointment.

There is no single Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles, 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 Los Angeles County like Cedars-Sinai & UCLA Health, insurance usually covers it. Body composition scans booked for fitness reasons are self-pay. HSA and FSA cards work for both.

Besides Los Angeles, we book scans for people in Santa Monica, Glendale and San Diego, and across the rest of Los Angeles County (213 / 323 / 310 area).

The Los Angeles service area (213 / 323 / 310 area) covers 8 ZIP codes, among them 90017, 90023, 90048, 90067, 90089. The full list is on this page above the FAQ, with the ZIPs that have a clinic sitting in them highlighted.

Yes. Nothing is injected and nothing encloses you: at BOD - Body Overview Data 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 Los Angeles 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 Cedars-Sinai & UCLA Health physician would order on its own.

Plan on 30 minutes in Los Angeles — check-in, then 10-15 minutes on the table at BOD - Body Overview Data. Results usually follow within a day or two.

No difference at all. "DXA" is the abbreviation radiology departments like Cedars-Sinai & UCLA Health use; "DEXA" is the one patients search for. Both name dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, and both describe what you would book in Los Angeles.