DEXA Scans in San Francisco, CA

Custom Fit SF, at 325 Octavia Street in San Francisco, CA, runs DEXA scans for the San Francisco area. Call (415) 891-7120 or book through Dexascans.com to schedule your appointment.

Each San Francisco clinic sets its own price, and cash-pay scans typically run $99–$250 depending on whether you book body composition, bone density, or both. The listings on this page carry the clinic's contact details so you can confirm the exact figure before you schedule. HSA and FSA payments are accepted at most locations.

Not for a body composition scan — you can book that at Custom Fit SF directly. A bone density scan billed to insurance usually needs a physician's order, though if you pay cash for it, no referral is required either.

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 San Francisco County health system like UCSF Health & Zuckerberg San Francisco General, insurance usually covers it. Body composition scans booked for fitness reasons are self-pay. HSA and FSA cards work for both.

Besides San Francisco, we book scans for people in San Jose and Palo Alto, and across the rest of San Francisco County (415 area).

The San Francisco service area (415 area) covers 4 ZIP codes, among them 94102, 94109, 94111, 94118. The full list is on this page above the FAQ, with the ZIPs that have a clinic sitting in them highlighted.

Yes. A DEXA scan at Custom Fit SF delivers roughly a tenth the radiation of a chest X-ray, less than you absorb from natural background sources in a normal day. Nothing touches you and nothing is injected. You lie still for 10-15 minutes.

Total and regional body fat percentage, how lean muscle is distributed across your arms, legs, and trunk, visceral fat around the organs, and bone mineral density. All of it from one 10-minute scan at Custom Fit SF.

Budget about 30 minutes including check-in at Custom Fit SF. The scan itself runs 10-15 minutes. Your results report arrives within 24 hours.

Nothing. Both stand for dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. DXA is what clinicians write, DEXA is what most people say, and Custom Fit SF runs the same test under either name. Same test, same machine.