DEXA Scans in Edison, NJ

The published location for Edison is New Jersey Imaging Network - Edison at 3830 Park Ave in North Edison, zip 08820, minutes from the Oak Tree Road corridor. It is an accredited outpatient imaging center in the RWJBarnabas Health and RadNet network, open weekdays 7am to 9pm plus Saturday mornings. Text or call (786) 420-6630 and Dexascans.com will handle the booking.

Four things no home scale can: your bone mineral density (with T-scores and Z-scores), lean muscle mass broken out by arms, legs, and trunk, total and regional body fat percentage, and visceral fat — the metabolically risky fat around your organs. It is one 10-15 minute scan, and for many Edison residents the visceral fat number alone is worth the visit.

Through Dexascans.com, body composition is $149, a bone density test is $199, and the complete package — composition plus bone density plus visceral fat assessment — is $249. No hidden fees, HSA/FSA accepted. That is a fraction of typical hospital-billed imaging rates in Middlesex County.

Substantially. Bioelectrical impedance devices like InBody infer composition from an electrical signal and can drift 5-8% based on hydration, a heavy meal, or a workout — DEXA measures tissue directly with low-dose X-ray and repeats within ±1-2%. If you are tracking a cut, a bulk, or a training block, DEXA is the number you can trust month over month.

For a body composition scan, no — book directly, no physician involved. A doctor's order matters only when you want a bone density study billed to insurance as osteoporosis screening; if you are paying self-pay, no referral is required for that either.

Very little — about one tenth of a standard chest X-ray, less than you absorb from natural background sources in a single day. That is why DEXA is used for routine repeat screening. The scan is painless: you lie on an open, flat table, fully clothed, for 10-15 minutes.

Very close. New Jersey Imaging Network - Edison at 3830 Park Ave sits in North Edison just minutes from the Oak Tree Road corridor, so residents of the Oak Tree and North Edison sections have one of the shortest DEXA trips in Middlesex County. From Menlo Park, Clara Barton, or Stelton, plan on roughly 10-15 minutes across town outside rush hour.

For bone density: often yes, when a physician's order documents medical necessity — Medicare covers screening DXA for qualifying patients, and NJIN of Edison operates within the RWJBarnabas Health network for insurance-billed exams. Body composition scans are wellness services, which insurers treat as self-pay; the $149 fee is HSA/FSA eligible.

Around 30 minutes door to door, with 10-15 minutes of actual scan time, and your complete report arrives within 24 hours. With the clinic open 7am to 9pm on weekdays, most Edison residents fit a scan around a Northeast Corridor commute or a Raritan Center shift without rearranging the day.

Anyone whose health question a scale can't answer: South Asian residents screening visceral fat and metabolic risk that BMI understates, runners and walkers from the Middlesex Greenway and Roosevelt Park verifying training progress, professionals from the Route 27 and Route 1 corridors tracking body composition, and adults over 50 establishing the bone density baseline their JFK University Medical Center physicians will want on file.