DEXA Scans in Germantown, MD

Germantown's verified provider is Community Radiology Associates' Germantown Imaging Center at 20528 Boland Farm Rd, Ste 110, in the medical cluster about half a mile from Holy Cross Germantown Hospital and the Montgomery College campus. Appointments book through Community Radiology's central scheduling line at (888) 601-0943, which confirms the right scanner for your test — or text/call (786) 420-6630 and we'll handle it.

Booked through Dexascans.com, body composition analysis starts at $149, a bone density test is $199, and the complete health package — body composition, bone density, and visceral fat — is $249. HSA and FSA funds apply, and flat pricing typically undercuts what Montgomery County hospital imaging departments bill.

Not for body composition — that books directly. Insurance-billed bone density studies usually need a physician's order first, the same route doctors affiliated with Holy Cross Germantown Hospital use for osteoporosis screening. Self-pay bone density at $199 requires no referral.

Often for bone density: when a physician documents medical necessity — postmenopausal screening, medication monitoring, elevated fracture risk — Medicare and most commercial plans cover it. Body composition scans are wellness testing and self-pay from $149. Both types accept HSA/FSA payment.

Yes. The dose is on the order of a tenth of a chest X-ray — comparable to a few hours of ordinary background exposure. You lie fully clothed on an open table for 10-15 minutes; there's no tunnel, no injection, and nothing to recover from.

Total body fat percentage and its regional distribution, lean muscle mass by limb and trunk, visceral fat around the organs, and bone mineral density. For a SoccerPlex athlete, an I-270 biotech professional, or a parent tracking health past 50, it's four clinical answers from one ten-minute scan.

About 30 minutes door to door, 10-15 of them on the table, with the full report delivered within 24 hours. Boland Farm Road sits just off Observation Drive east of I-270, an easy reach from every Germantown village — Milestone is a mile north, Town Center two miles west.

Considerably. Bioimpedance devices infer composition from an electrical current and wander 5-8% with hydration; DEXA measures tissue directly with low-dose X-ray at about ±1-2%. Only DEXA reports bone mineral density and visceral fat — the two numbers no gym scale can produce.

Yes — the Germantown Imaging Center on Boland Farm Road is about half a mile from the hospital, in the same medical district that's grown up along Observation Drive by the Montgomery College campus. Community Radiology's scheduling line, (888) 601-0943, confirms scanner availability when you book.

Two local forces drive it: the Maryland SoccerPlex keeps thousands of competitive athletes — and their parents — thinking about performance data every weekend, and the I-270 corridor's biotech workforce approaches health the way it approaches lab work: measure first. DEXA supplies the measured version of body fat, muscle, and bone that both groups actually want.