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Manual Stress Positioning for Joint X-ray

Washington, DC 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?

$52.48

Typical negotiated rate. In Washington, DC, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $52.48 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $52.48 from a physician practice, and about $155 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$52.48$48.98 to $83.18
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$155$52.48 to $324

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $155 · 10th to 90th $52 to $447Professionalmedian $52 · 10th to 90th $41 to $191
$50$100$200$500facility $155professional $52

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
$52.48
Median
$154.88
Typical High
$323.59
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$52.48
Typical High
$190.55
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$151.36
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$660.69
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$60.26
Typical High
$154.88
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$67.61
Typical High
$128.82
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$512.86
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$42.66
Median
$77.62
Typical High
$323.59

Where Washington, DC 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.

Washington, DC· 44th of 51

$52.48

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.