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Manual Stress Positioning for Joint X-ray

Arizona 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 Arizona, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $56.23 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $54.95 from a physician practice, and about $110 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$54.95$45.71 to $63.10
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$110$74.13 to $224

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $110 · 10th to 90th $52 to $288Professionalmedian $55 · 10th to 90th $39 to $98
$50$100$200facility $110professional $55

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
$79.43
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$263.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$38.90
Median
$56.23
Typical High
$95.50
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$37.15
Median
$37.15
Typical High
$83.18
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$389.05
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$58.88
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$281.84
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$288.40
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$112.20
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$114.82
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33.88
Median
$53.70
Typical High
$354.81
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.90
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$134.90
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33.88
Median
$53.70
Typical High
$81.28

Where Arizona 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.

Arizona· 37th 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.