DEXA Scans in San Jose, CA

Valley Radiologist- East San Jose, at 2323 Mckee Rd in San Jose, CA, runs DEXA scans for the San Jose area. Book through Dexascans.com to schedule your appointment.

There is no single San Jose 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.

Only if you want insurance to pay. Self-pay booking at Valley Radiologist- East San Jose needs no referral for either scan type; an insurance-billed bone density exam does need your physician to order it first.

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 Santa Clara County health system like Santa Clara Valley Medical Center & Good Samaritan Hospital, insurance usually covers it. Body composition scans booked for fitness reasons are self-pay. HSA and FSA cards work for both.

Besides San Jose, we book scans for people in San Francisco and Palo Alto, and across the rest of Santa Clara County (408 area).

Yes. Nothing is injected and nothing encloses you: at Valley Radiologist- East San Jose 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.

One scan in San Jose 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 Santa Clara Valley Medical Center & Good Samaritan Hospital physician would order on its own.

Plan on 30 minutes in San Jose — check-in, then 10-15 minutes on the table at Valley Radiologist- East San Jose. Results follow within 24 hours, so a morning scan is a next-day answer.

No difference at all. "DXA" is the abbreviation radiology departments like Santa Clara Valley Medical Center & Good Samaritan Hospital use; "DEXA" is the one patients search for. Both name dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, and both describe what you would book in San Jose.