DEXA scans in Flowood

Merit Health - River Oaks, at 1030 River Oaks Drive in Flowood, MS, runs DEXA scans for the Flowood area. Call (601) 932-1030 to schedule your appointment.

There is no single Flowood price: clinics publish their own rates, and cash-pay DEXA scans generally land between $99 and $250 by scan type. That still usually undercuts the $300-plus hospital imaging departments bill for comparable scans. Ask the clinic for its current rate when scheduling — HSA/FSA funds work at most.

Mostly when you want insurance to pay: an insurance-billed bone density exam needs your physician to order it first. Self-pay scans usually need no referral in Flowood, but ask when you book, since some hospital departments require one.

Often, yes, but only for bone density. If a physician in Rankin County orders the scan as medically necessary, insurance usually covers it. Body composition scans booked for fitness reasons are self-pay in Flowood, typically $99–$250 depending on the clinic. HSA and FSA cards work for both.

Yes. Nothing is injected and nothing encloses you: at Merit Health - River Oaks you lie on an open table for 10-15 minutes while the scanner arm passes overhead. The X-ray dose is roughly a tenth of a chest X-ray.

Where a Flowood clinic offers body composition as well as bone density, one scan produces your body fat percentage, a limb-by-limb lean mass breakdown, a visceral fat reading, and bone mineral density. That combination is why a DEXA report replaces a stack of separate measurements.

Plan on 30 minutes in Flowood — check-in, then 10-15 minutes on the table at Merit Health - River Oaks. Results usually follow within a day or two.

No difference at all. "DXA" is the abbreviation radiology departments in Rankin County use; "DEXA" is the one patients search for. Both name dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, and both describe what you would book in Flowood.