DEXA Scans in Aurora, CO

Aurora's verified clinic is SimonMed Imaging - Aurora at 14301 E Cedar Ave, Unit E, in the City Center area one block south of Alameda Avenue — across from the Town Center at Aurora mall and about half a mile from the I-225/Alameda exit. Call the office at (720) 492-1985, or text/call (786) 420-6630 and we'll book it for you.

Booked through Dexascans.com: $149 for comprehensive body composition, $199 for bone density, $249 for the complete package including visceral fat assessment. HSA/FSA cards are accepted. For a city whose biggest employer is a medical campus, it's worth noting these self-pay rates typically beat hospital imaging department pricing by a wide margin.

For body composition, no — book directly and walk in. For bone density billed to insurance, you'll generally need a physician's order first; doctors across the Anschutz Medical Campus and HCA HealthONE Aurora order these routinely for osteoporosis screening. Prefer to skip the office visit? Self-pay bone density needs no referral.

Often for bone density: when a physician orders it as medically necessary — postmenopausal screening, medication monitoring, fracture-risk assessment — most plans and Medicare cover it. Body composition scans for fitness are self-pay, starting at $149, and both scan types accept HSA and FSA funds.

Extremely. The dose is roughly a tenth of a chest X-ray — less than the natural background radiation of a day on the Front Range. The scan is open-table, painless, and takes 10-15 minutes; it's the same technology the research hospitals up the road at Anschutz rely on for body composition studies.

In one pass: total and regional body fat percentage, lean muscle mass by arm, leg, and trunk, visceral fat around the organs, and bone mineral density. Whether you're a nurse coming off shift at University of Colorado Hospital or training for a Cherry Creek Reservoir triathlon, it's the full structural picture in ten minutes.

Plan about half an hour door to door — quick check-in, a 10-15 minute scan, and out. Results arrive within 24 hours as a full report. The Cedar Avenue office is half a mile off I-225, which keeps it easy from Anschutz, Buckley, or anywhere on the R Line corridor.

For accuracy, yes. InBody-style bioimpedance swings 5-8% with hydration — and Colorado's altitude and dry air make consistent hydration rare. DEXA reads tissue directly with X-ray at ±1-2% and adds bone density and visceral fat, neither of which an impedance device can measure at all.

Yes — SimonMed Imaging - Aurora on E Cedar Ave is about 15 minutes west of Buckley's gates via Alameda or 6th Avenue. Guardians and airmen use DEXA to get exact body fat percentages ahead of official assessments, with numbers rather than tape-measure estimates. Text (786) 420-6630 to schedule.

Because they know the literature. With roughly 27,000 people working at the Rocky Mountain region's largest academic medical center — 2.5 miles up I-225 from the clinic — Aurora has an unusually clinically fluent population, and DEXA is the body composition method their own research uses as the reference standard.