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Tooth Nerve Vitality Test

Minnesota rates for HCPCS D0460

A simple in-office test to check whether the nerve and blood supply inside a tooth are still alive and healthy, often using a cold stimulus, an electrical tester, or another method to see how the tooth responds. It helps determine whether a tooth needs root canal treatment or other care.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Tooth Nerve Vitality Test cost?

$75.86

Typical negotiated rate. In Minnesota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $75.86 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $75.86 from a physician practice, and about $20.42 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 3 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$75.86$60.26 to $75.86
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$20.42$20.42 to $21.88

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $20 · 10th to 90th $20 to $87Professionalmedian $76 · 10th to 90th $20 to $78
$20$50$100$200$500$1Kfacility $20professional $76

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20.42
Median
$20.42
Typical High
$20.42
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$15.49
Median
$20.42
Typical High
$21.38
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$87.10
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$87.10
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$75.86
Typical High
$77.62
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$16.98
Median
$30.20
Typical High
$41.69
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$28.84
Median
$281.84
Typical High
$281.84

Where Minnesota sits

The same service costs 6.9 times more in Minnesota than in South Dakota. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Minnesota· 1st of 51

$75.86

MN $75.86SD $10.96

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.