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Is a dexa every 2 years enough?

Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Jun 6 9:05am | Replies (55)
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@dlmdinia

Medicare will pay for the scans every year provided you are actively being treated for bone loss. I have osteopenia which would normally not be covered (annually) nor would the drug to treat it, but because I am using an AI which can cause bone loss the drug is covered. Because I'm being treated for bone loss, the scan is covered annually.

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hopefulheart | @hopefulheart | May 23 4:15pm

Can I ask
What’s an AI?

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freckle1 | @freckle1 | May 25 5:22pm

Same here in Australia. But I'm thinking of getting a DEXA scan every six months even if I have to pay for it. Might be a tad childish but I want to see concrete results for all this slogging away at the gym twice a week doing a variant of the Onera program. (I'm 76 with osteopenia and taking anastrozole. )

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awfultruth | @awfultruth | May 25 7:20pm

@dlmdinia I don't know what codes the doctor uses but I've been getting a DXA scan pretty much every year for 4 years now. Maybe just my bad numbers are enough to make that get approved by traditional Medicare but the doctor does not expect any problem and there hasn't been any problem getting reimbursed. I have paid myself once when I wanted to know what was happening sooner than 1 year. I was not being actively treated during that time period. No meds until after the last DXA.

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