DEXA Scans in Metairie, LA

The published Metairie location is the LCMC Health Ridgelake Health Center at 2121 Ridgelake Dr., 4th Floor — an outpatient center just off Causeway Boulevard near the I-10 interchange, part of the same system as East Jefferson General Hospital. Text or call Dexascans.com at (786) 420-6630 to arrange a scan.

Through Dexascans.com, self-pay DEXA starts at $149 for body composition, $199 for a bone-density test, and $249 for the full package with visceral fat assessment. HSA/FSA payments work, and flat self-pay pricing avoids the billing surprises hospital insurance claims can produce.

Insurance-billed diagnostic DXA at the Ridgelake Health Center typically needs a physician's order — the standard for LCMC Health outpatient imaging. Self-pay scans booked through Dexascans.com require no referral, which suits body-composition testing or anyone who'd rather not schedule a doctor visit first.

For bone density, usually yes when medically necessary: Medicare covers screening DXA for qualifying adults, and physicians affiliated with East Jefferson General Hospital order it routinely. Body-composition scans for fitness goals are self-pay from $149, HSA/FSA eligible.

Yes — the dose is roughly a tenth of a chest X-ray, well under a single day of background radiation. You lie fully clothed on an open table for 10-15 minutes; nothing encloses you and nothing touches you.

About 30 minutes at 2121 Ridgelake Dr., with 10-15 minutes of scan time — easy to fit around a Causeway commute since the center sits right off the boulevard. Self-pay results through Dexascans.com arrive within 24 hours.

The diagnostic bone-density exam performed at the Ridgelake center reports hip and spine bone mineral density — the numbers that define osteoporosis. A full-body composition DEXA adds regional fat and lean-mass mapping plus visceral fat, the strongest imaging predictor of metabolic risk.

For accuracy, clearly: bioimpedance swings 5-8% with hydration — a genuine problem in south Louisiana heat — while DEXA's direct X-ray measurement holds ±1-2% regardless of what you drank or how you trained that morning. It's the reference method every other device is graded against.

Yes — the LCMC Health Ridgelake Health Center sits between them: five minutes from Old Metairie's Metairie Road, a straight shot down Causeway from Fat City, and about ten minutes from Bucktown and the lakefront levee path via Bonnabel Boulevard. Kenner and Old Jefferson reach it in 10-15 minutes.

The lakefront levee crowd wants proof their miles are building lean mass rather than burning it, and Metairie's large retiree population needs the fracture-risk screening DXA was built for. Both get their answer from the same scanner on Ridgelake Drive — text or call (786) 420-6630 to book.