DEXA Scans in Washington, DC

The District has no published DEXA location inside its borders yet, but seven verified facilities ring it. The closest body-composition option is Bodymass Composition Testing at 2000 15th St. N. in Arlington's Courthouse area, minutes over Key Bridge; Community Radiology's imaging centers in Rockville, Germantown, Bowie, and Clinton cover bone densitometry on the Maryland side. Text or call (786) 420-6630 to book.

Each clinic sets its own price — Dexascans.com doesn't. Cash-pay DEXA around the District typically runs $99-$250 depending on whether you want body composition, bone density, or both, and many clinics accept HSA/FSA — usually without the billing surprises common at hospital-based imaging inside the Beltway.

Yes. Bodymass Composition Testing sits in Arlington's Courthouse area, a short walk from the Courthouse station on the Orange and Silver lines, so Georgetown, Foggy Bottom, and downtown D.C. can reach a scan without a car. The Maryland imaging centers in Rockville and Bowie are easier drives via MD-355 and US-50.

Not for wellness body-composition scans — those are direct-book at the Arlington, Falls Church, and McLean facilities. Insurance-billed diagnostic bone-density exams at the Community Radiology centers in suburban Maryland require a physician order, which your MedStar or GW-affiliated doctor can write.

For Georgetown, the Palisades, and points west, Arlington and McLean are closest: Bodymass Composition Testing is over Key Bridge, and Cenegenics Washington DC operates on Greensboro Drive in McLean near Tysons. Upper Northwest neighborhoods like Tenleytown reach Community Radiology's Rockville center fastest via Wisconsin Avenue and MD-355.

Community Radiology's two Clinton, MD centers are the nearest bone-density option for Anacostia and points south via Suitland Parkway, while Capitol Hill and Northeast D.C. reach the two Bowie imaging centers in about 25 minutes on US-50.

Yes — the dose is roughly a tenth of a chest X-ray, less than a day of ordinary background exposure. The scan is open-table and painless, with about 10-15 minutes of scan time, which is why Marine Corps Marathon trainees repeat it across a season.

Medicare covers screening bone-density DXA for qualifying adults, and the Maryland imaging centers serving the District process physician-ordered, insurance-billed exams routinely. Fitness-oriented body-composition scans are self-pay, priced by the clinic, typically $99-$250, and many clinics take HSA/FSA — a fit for the District's federal benefit plans.

Total and regional body fat, limb-by-limb lean mass, visceral fat around the organs, and bone mineral density — measured directly by low-dose X-ray to about ±1-2%, versus the 5-8% hydration-driven drift of gym bioimpedance devices. It's the difference between data and estimate.

One booking line — (786) 420-6630 — covers the whole ring of verified facilities around the District, from Arlington and McLean in Virginia to Rockville, Germantown, Bowie, and Clinton in Maryland, so you pick by commute instead of calling seven front desks.