DEXA Scans in Santa Monica, CA

Commons Clinic, at 2901 Wilshire Ave, Ste 300 in Santa Monica, CA, runs DEXA scans for the Santa Monica area. Book through Dexascans.com to schedule your appointment.

Three flat prices for Santa Monica: $149 body composition, $199 bone density, $249 for the combined package with visceral fat. That is what you pay booking through Dexascans.com — no facility fee on top — and HSA/FSA funds are accepted.

Only if you want insurance to pay. Self-pay booking at Commons Clinic 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 Los Angeles County health system like Providence Saint John's Health Center & UCLA Health Santa Monica, insurance usually covers it. Body composition scans booked for fitness reasons are self-pay. HSA and FSA cards work for both.

Yes. Nothing is injected and nothing encloses you: at Commons Clinic 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 Santa Monica 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 Providence Saint John's Health Center & UCLA Health Santa Monica physician would order on its own.

Plan on 30 minutes in Santa Monica — check-in, then 10-15 minutes on the table at Commons Clinic. 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 Providence Saint John's Health Center & UCLA Health Santa Monica use; "DEXA" is the one patients search for. Both name dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, and both describe what you would book in Santa Monica.