DEXA scans in Des Moines

Sana Vita Health, at 3709 Southern Hills Drive in Des Moines, IA, runs DEXA scans for the Des Moines area. Call (515) 789-3940 to schedule your appointment.

Each Des Moines 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.

Usually not for a self-pay body composition scan in Des Moines, though a hospital imaging department may ask for a physician's order for any scan, so check when you book. A bone density scan billed to insurance usually needs one.

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 health system in Polk County like UnityPoint Health Iowa Methodist & MercyOne Des Moines, insurance usually covers it. Body composition scans booked for fitness reasons are self-pay. HSA and FSA cards work for both.

Yes. A DEXA scan at Sana Vita Health 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 whole-body scan in Des Moines, wherever a clinic offers body composition as well as bone density.

Budget about 30 minutes including check-in at Sana Vita Health. The scan itself runs 10-15 minutes. Most clinics send the results report within a day or two.

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