DEXA Scans in Webster, TX

Primary Care Center of Clear Lake at 13920 Osprey Ct, Suite C, Webster, TX 77598 is the published provider — a medical office building on the north side of town reached from Highway 3 or Clear Lake City Boulevard. Book by calling or texting (786) 420-6630 through Dexascans.com; the practice's new-patient line is (832) 304-5150.

Through Dexascans.com, body composition is $149, bone density is $199, and the complete package — both scans plus a visceral fat analysis — is $249. HSA and FSA cards are accepted, which suits the flexible-benefit plans common among aerospace and hospital employers in the Clear Lake area.

A DEXA scan at the Osprey Court clinic measures bone mineral density — the gold-standard screen for osteoporosis and osteopenia — plus lean muscle mass by body region, precise body fat percentage, and visceral fat, the deep abdominal fat tied to metabolic disease. It is one low-dose X-ray pass, and it quantifies all four.

For precision, yes. Bioimpedance devices like InBody push a small current through your body and estimate composition from resistance, so hydration shifts swing results by 5-8 percent — an issue anyone training in Gulf Coast humidity knows well. DEXA images tissue directly and holds to 1-2 percent, which is why researchers calibrate BIA devices against it.

Very little — about one-tenth of a chest X-ray, or less than a normal day of background radiation. NASA flight surgeons have used DXA on astronauts before and after missions precisely because it delivers clinical-grade bone data at a trivial dose. Even several scans a year stay far below routine imaging exposure.

No referral is needed to book a self-pay body composition scan at Primary Care Center of Clear Lake. If you want a bone density scan billed to insurance, you will need a physician's order documenting medical necessity — and because the Choudharys run an internal-medicine practice, patients who need that clinical pathway can get it under the same roof.

Bone density DXA is often covered when a physician orders it for medical necessity, and Medicare covers screening DXA for qualifying patients — relevant to the many retirees who settled around Clear Lake after NASA and Boeing careers. Body composition scanning is a self-pay wellness service, though HSA and FSA funds apply.

About 30 minutes door to door. The scan itself takes 10-15 minutes lying still on an open table — no tunnel, no injections, regular clothes without metal. Results come back within 24 hours, fast enough to review before your next training block or doctor visit.

Close. From the JSC main gate area on NASA Parkway, head west to Highway 3 and turn north; the Osprey Court medical building is roughly a ten-minute drive, near Clear Lake City Boulevard. It is a realistic lunch-break errand, since actual table time is only 10-15 minutes.

Three groups dominate: aerospace professionals who want hard numbers on body composition; women 50+ and older men from Webster, League City, and Friendswood screening bone density before a fracture forces the issue; and people on medical weight-loss or GLP-1 programs verifying that the weight coming off is fat, not muscle.