DEXA Scans in The Woodlands, TX

Three published providers, all in the 77380 zip: SimonMed The Woodlands at 8850 Six Pines Dr., #190 in Town Center, (832) 381-3800; Capitol Imaging's Houston MRI – The Woodlands at 1733 Woodstead Ct., Suite 100 in Grogan's Mill, (713) 425-8100; and DNA Health & Fitness at 1790 Hughes Landing Blvd., Building II, Suite 125, book that one by texting or calling Dexascans.com at (786) 420-6630.

Dexascans.com pricing applies township-wide: a comprehensive body composition scan starts at $149, bone density testing is $199, and the complete health package is $249. HSA/FSA cards are accepted at booking. Those rates usually undercut what a hospital-based imaging department bills for the equivalent scan, and there are no hidden add-ons.

Body composition scans are self-referred, pick a time and go. Bone density is the one to plan around: if you want insurance to pay, you'll usually need an order from your physician, the same order doctors at Memorial Hermann The Woodlands and Houston Methodist The Woodlands write for osteoporosis screening. Self-pay bone density skips the paperwork entirely.

Bone density scans ordered as medically necessary (post-menopausal screening, long-term steroid use, fracture history) are commonly covered. Body composition testing is wellness spending: self-pay from $149, payable with HSA or FSA funds. If you're unsure which you need, text (786) 420-6630 and we'll sort out the coverage question before you book.

Yes, that's one of its advantages. The dose is a fraction of a chest X-ray, well under what a typical day of background radiation, delivered while you lie on an open table for 10-15 painless minutes. Endurance athletes in The Woodlands commonly rescan each training season without approaching any meaningful exposure threshold.

Everything a serious training log needs: total and regional body fat percentage, lean mass by limb and trunk, visceral fat, and bone mineral density. For an IRONMAN Texas athlete it separates real fitness change from water weight; for everyone else it's the clinical baseline that wearables and gym scales can only approximate.

Plan on roughly 30 minutes including check-in; the scan itself is 10-15 minutes. All three local providers sit within the Town Center, Hughes Landing, and Grogan's Mill areas, so it slots easily around a Waterway lunch or a Market Street errand. Full results are delivered within 24 hours.

InBody-style BIA readings bend with hydration, a real issue in Houston-area humidity, where you're rarely at baseline after training outdoors. Expect 5-8% swings from those devices versus DEXA's ±1-2% direct X-ray measurement. DEXA also reads bone density and visceral fat, which no impedance scale can measure at all.

Yes, on both counts. DNA Health & Fitness operates inside Hughes Landing at 1790 Hughes Landing Blvd., overlooking Lake Woodlands, and SimonMed's Town Center site on Six Pines Dr. is close to the Waterway district. Grogan's Mill residents are nearest Houston MRI on Woodstead Ct., three options within a single township.

Because a 140.6 build punishes guesswork. The Memorial Hermann IRONMAN Texas course swims Lake Woodlands and finishes on Waterway Avenue, and the athletes who race it use DEXA to confirm lean mass survives peak volume, monitor bone density under high mileage, and set body composition targets for race weight instead of estimating them.