DEXA Scans in Brandon, MS

Two verified options serve Brandon: Brandon Family Chiropractic at 1350 West Government Street, reachable at (601) 540-7414, offering DEXA body composition scanning, and Merit Health Rankin at 350 Crossgates Boulevard for hospital-based diagnostic imaging. Text or call (786) 420-6630 and Dexascans.com will line up the right location and appointment for you.

Scans booked through Dexascans.com start at $149 for full body composition analysis; a bone density test is $199 and the complete health package is $249, covering body composition, bone density, and visceral fat. Payment by HSA or FSA card is accepted, and the transparent flat pricing frequently undercuts hospital imaging department bills.

For a body composition scan, no — you book it directly, no doctor involved. The exception is insurance-billed bone density testing: carriers generally require an order from a physician, such as one on staff at Merit Health Rankin, to cover osteoporosis screening. Self-pay bone density testing requires no referral.

Frequently yes for bone density: when a Rankin County physician orders the test as medically necessary, most plans treat it as a covered screening. Body composition DEXA for fitness or weight-loss tracking is normally self-pay — $149 through Dexascans.com — and both scan types can be paid with HSA/FSA funds.

Yes. DEXA uses a very low X-ray dose, roughly one-tenth of a chest X-ray, and the scan is completely painless — you lie on an open table for 10-15 minutes while the arm passes overhead. It's safe enough that clinicians use it for routine repeat screening.

It quantifies body fat percentage overall and by region, lean muscle mass in each arm, leg, and the trunk, visceral fat, and bone mineral density. For Brandon's weekend athletes, Reservoir regulars, and adults watching bone health, those four numbers do more to guide training and prevention than anything a bathroom scale reports.

Set aside roughly 30 minutes including check-in; the scan itself lasts only 10-15 minutes, so it slots easily into a lunch hour on Government Street or an errand run near Crossgates. A complete results report with all your measurements follows within 24 hours.

Considerably. BIA devices like InBody push a small current through the body and infer fat from resistance, so results can swing 5-8% with hydration — and training through a Mississippi summer guarantees hydration swings. DEXA measures fat, muscle, and bone directly via low-dose X-ray with ±1-2% accuracy, the standard used in clinical research.

No. Between Brandon Family Chiropractic on West Government Street and Merit Health Rankin on Crossgates Boulevard, both body composition and hospital-based imaging are available inside the city, and the Merit Health system also operates River Oaks in nearby Flowood. Text (786) 420-6630 to book the Rankin County location nearest you.

Anyone training with a target: runners who log laps on the Shiloh Park walking loop, high-school athletes' parents keeping pace with their kids, lifters at local gyms, and paddlers and anglers who spend summers on the Ross Barnett Reservoir. A baseline scan plus a follow-up eight to twelve weeks later shows exactly what changed — fat, muscle, and where.