I need a dental implant
A single-tooth implant: the titanium post, the abutment, and the crown on top.
The three prices nobody explains to you
⚠️ This is a composed figure, and we're telling you. No source publishes this as a single bundled price — it's several separate procedures. This is our arithmetic summing published components, not someone else's published bundle.
Source: Colorado All-Payer Claims Database (CIVHC) — dental analysis, commercial claims (CY2024) — the only US source publishing dental allowed amounts from actual commercial claims.
COMPOSED FIGURE — and we're telling you, because nobody else will. No source publishes a single-tooth implant as one price; it's three separate procedures (post + abutment + crown). This is our arithmetic summing published components, not someone's published bundle. The implant post alone is an allowed $1,617.
What you'd actually pay
The thing nobody tells you
Here's what actually matters, and it has nothing to do with whether your plan 'covers' implants. On a typical $1,500-maximum plan, your insurer pays $1,500 and you pay $1,852 — the ANNUAL MAXIMUM runs out before the coinsurance even matters. On a $1,000 plan you pay $2,352. Only on an unusually generous $2,500 plan does the coinsurance become the binding constraint, and even then you still pay $1,701. Whichever way you cut it, the implant costs you more than your insurance pays.