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Manual Stress Positioning for Joint X-ray

Delaware 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 Delaware, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $52.48 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $50.12 from a physician practice, and about $66.07 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 4 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$50.12$40.74 to $56.23
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$66.07$66.07 to $66.07

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $66 · 10th to 90th $66 to $66Professionalmedian $50 · 10th to 90th $40 to $76
$50$100$200facility $66professional $50

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. Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$66.07
Typical High
$66.07
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$61.66
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$138.04
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.90
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$93.33
Highmark BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$67.61
Median
$67.61
Typical High
$67.61
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$57.54
Typical High
$57.54
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$31.62
Median
$51.29
Typical High
$120.23

Where Delaware 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.

Delaware· 43rd 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.