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Manual Stress Positioning for Joint X-ray

Georgia 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?

$54.95

Typical negotiated rate. In Georgia, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $54.95 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $53.70 from a physician practice, and about $151 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 7 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$45.71 to $83.18
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$151$83.18 to $186

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $151 · 10th to 90th $47 to $186Professionalmedian $54 · 10th to 90th $41 to $145
$50$100$200facility $151professional $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
$45.71
Median
$89.13
Typical High
$151.36
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$51.29
Typical High
$151.36
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$38.90
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$114.82
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$186.21
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33.88
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$100.00
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$257.04
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$38.02
Median
$64.57
Typical High
$128.82
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$77.62
Typical High
$173.78
Oscar Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$67.61
Typical High
$123.03
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$36.31
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$218.78
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33.88
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$107.15

Where Georgia 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.

Georgia· 39th of 51

$54.95

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.