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Manual Stress Positioning for Joint X-ray

Alaska rates for HCPCS 77071

This service covers a healthcare professional manually applying gentle stress or pressure to a joint while X-ray images are taken, to reveal instability or looseness that would not show up on a standard resting image. It is typically added on to a joint X-ray, and the opposite, uninjured joint is often imaged the same way for comparison.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Manual Stress Positioning for Joint X-ray cost?

$105

Typical negotiated rate. In Alaska, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $105 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $145 from a physician practice, and about $75.86 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 6 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$145$53.70 to $182
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$75.86$50.12 to $100

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $76 · 10th to 90th $41 to $145Professionalmedian $145 · 10th to 90th $35 to $240
$50$100$200$500facility $76professional $145

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
$151.36
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$1,071.52
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$53.70
Typical High
$162.18
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$389.05
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.90
Median
$85.11
Typical High
$165.96
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$125.89
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$346.74
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$316.23
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$131.83
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$48.98
Median
$120.23
Typical High
$162.18
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$281.84

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 2.3 times more in South Dakota than in Florida. 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.

Alaska· 3rd of 51

$105

SD $110FL $46.77

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.