Heart Month Calcium Scoring Promotion

What is a Calcium Scoring Scan?

A calcium scoring scan is a noninvasive computerized tomography (CT) scan that measures calcium build-up in your artery walls. The CT scans your heart and the measurement of calcification produces a score that shows the level of calcium in your heart and the risk of having a sudden cardiac event, such as a heart attack. The only normal calcium score is zero.

Who Should Get Scanned

If you have any of the risk factors associated with heart disease, such as smoking, being overweight, having high cholesterol, having high blood pressure or being diabetic, a calcium scan can do more than identify your risk - it can help prevent a future heart attack.

Doctors recommend that if you are otherwise healthy, a calcium scan should be performed at age 40 for men and 45 for women. If your score is zero, you generally do not need to be tested again for five years. Those with chest pain, known heart disease, previous angioplasty/stent or heart surgery are not good candidates, and do not qualify for this test.

When you receive your calcium score, your physician will consider your score, along with your risk factors, in order to determine the best plan for prevention.

How to Schedule Your Scan

Please call 334-364-3111 to schedule your appointment or request an appointment online.

While a physician referral is not required for this exam, please provide the name of your primary care physician when you schedule your exam. After your scan, your physician will be able to review the results of your exam with you. If you do not have a primary care physician, please visit our find a doctor page.

During the month of February, all calcium scoring scans will cost only $50, which is half off the normal price of $100. This scan is not covered by insurance. A physician referral is not required for this exam

Where to Go For Your Scan

Calcium scoring scans will be performed at Outpatient Imaging at the Auburn Medical Pavilion, 900 Camp Auburn Road in Auburn.

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