Dental costs in Illinois: implants, crowns, braces and more
Illinois Medicaid fees are among the lowest relative to dentists' charges, and its schedule barely moved between 2023 and 2026; a crown is estimated at $1,166.
You pay for crown in Illinois
$374
$699 billed, $324 paid by the plan.
| Estimated dentist charge (full fee) | $1,166 |
| Estimated in-network price | $699 |
| Plan pays (50 % after deductible) | $324 |
| Deductible | $50 |
| Illinois Medicaid fee, same codes (2024) | $273 |
Estimate: Illinois Medicaid fee ÷ 26.6 % (Medicaid pay as a share of dentists' charges, ADA HPI 2024). Brought to September 2026 with the dental services price index (BLS). Not a quote.
| CDT code | Service | Count | Medicaid fee, 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| D2740 | Crown, porcelain or ceramic | 1 | $272.83 |
Compiled by Radif Partners · How prices are estimated · Illinois Medicaid (HFS) Dental Program, fee-for-service fee schedule, ADA ratios of Illinois · not a quote
In Illinois the estimates put a porcelain crown at $1,166, a root canal on a front tooth at $676 and on a molar at $1,114, comprehensive braces for a teenager at $4,272 and complete dentures for both arches at $3,795, in September 2026 dollars before insurance. They divide the fees of the dental program of the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services by the state's ratios from the ADA's 2024 study, which found that Illinois Medicaid paid 26.6 % of what dentists charged for adult care and 23.9 % for children's care, both well under the national figures. The schedule in force on July 1, 2024 was the edition effective January 1, 2023; the agency's archive shows no edition in 2024. For the codes used here, only 4 fees, all for sedation, differ from today's.
A schedule with three columns and two ratios
The HFS dental program fee schedule prints a maximum allowance for children, one for adults and one for pregnant women, the last equal to the adult column for every code this site uses. Many codes are paid at the same amount in both age columns: a porcelain crown pays $273 whoever the patient is. Others exist for children only. Root canals on premolars and molars, partial dentures and teen orthodontics are among them, so the site prices those from the children's fee with the children's ratio of 23.9 %, while a root canal on a front tooth, which has an adult fee, uses the adult ratio of 26.6 %.
The schedule also flags the codes that need prior approval, crowns and dentures among them. That is a rule for the program's own members and does not enter the estimate, which only uses the fee.
Illinois estimate with your plan
You pay for crown in Illinois
$374
| Estimated dentist charge (full fee) | $1,166 |
| Estimated in-network price | $699 |
| Plan pays (50 % after deductible) | $324 |
| Deductible | $50 |
Low fees, low ratio, moderate prices
A low ratio raises an estimate and a low fee lowers it, and in Illinois the two nearly offset. The crown estimate of $1,166 sits below the median of $1,713 for the 18 states that price a crown. With a private plan, the network price would be about $699, and a plan paying half of major work after a $50 deductible would leave $374 to the patient. A three-unit bridge is not shown: the Illinois fees for its codes give an estimate far from the other states, so the outlier screen withholds it.
The numbers describe the state as a whole. Chicago offices and those in downstate towns are not separated in any public file, and most Illinois Medicaid members are served by managed care plans whose payments are not published. The braces page and the crown page compare Illinois with the other states that price the same work.
Illinois price list, procedure by procedure
| Procedure | Unit | Full fee | In network | Medicaid fee, 2024 | Medicaid fee today |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crown | per tooth | $1,166 | $699 | $273 | $273 |
| Root canal, front tooth | per tooth | $676 | $405 | $158 | $158 |
| Root canal, premolar | per tooth | $737 | $433 | $155 | $155 |
| Root canal, molar | per tooth | $1,114 | $654 | $235 | $235 |
| Braces, teen | full treatment | $4,272 | $2,509 | $900 | $900 |
| Full dentures, both arches | both arches | $3,795 | $2,275 | $888 | $888 |
| Full denture, one arch | one arch | $1,897 | $1,137 | $444 | $444 |
| Partial denture | one arch | $2,072 | $1,217 | $437 | $437 |
| Simple extraction | per tooth | $229 | $137 | $54 | $54 |
| Surgical extraction | per tooth | $336 | $201 | $79 | $79 |
| Wisdom teeth, four impacted | four teeth | $1,996 | $1,197 | $467 | $467 |
| Deep cleaning (scaling and root planing) | full mouth | $2,085 | $1,250 | $488 | $488 |
| Filling | per tooth | $243 | $146 | $57 | $57 |
| Checkup and cleaning | one visit | $412 | $247 | $96 | $96 |