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Manual Stress Positioning for Joint X-ray

Alabama 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?

$56.23

Typical negotiated rate. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $56.23 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $53.70 from a physician practice, and about $69.18 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$53.70$43.65 to $69.18
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$69.18$69.18 to $110

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $69 · 10th to 90th $63 to $158Professionalmedian $54 · 10th to 90th $37 to $69
$50$100$200facility $69professional $54

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
$67.61
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$81.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$69.18
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$38.90
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$72.44
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$51.29
Typical High
$66.07
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$117.49
Typical High
$213.80
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$117.49
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$134.90
Typical High
$162.18
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$29.51
Median
$48.98
Typical High
$66.07

Where Alabama 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.

Alabama· 36th of 51

$56.23

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.