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Root-End Stabilizing Implant

North Carolina rates for HCPCS D3460

A procedure where a small stabilizing implant is placed through the tip of a tooth's root and into the surrounding bone to help support a tooth with weakened root structure. It's an uncommon procedure, generally considered only in specific situations where other ways of saving the tooth aren't suitable.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Root-End Stabilizing Implant cost?

$525

Typical negotiated rate. In North Carolina, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $525 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $525 from a physician practice, and about $513 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 5 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$525$490 to $955
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$513$490 to $813

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $513 · 10th to 90th $490 to $1,202Professionalmedian $525 · 10th to 90th $398 to $1,660
$500$1K$2Kfacility $513professional $525

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
$489.78
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$489.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$812.83
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,819.70
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$1,230.27
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$891.25
Wellcare
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,311.31
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$3,311.31
Wellcare
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,630.78
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$3,981.07

Where North Carolina sits

The same service costs 8.5 times more in Minnesota than in Nebraska. 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.

North Carolina· 27th of 51

$525

MN $2,692NE $316

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.