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Manual Stress Positioning for Joint X-ray

Idaho 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?

$63.10

Typical negotiated rate. In Idaho, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $63.10 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $61.66 from a physician practice, and about $123 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 9 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$61.66$52.48 to $97.72
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$123$64.57 to $200

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $123 · 10th to 90th $54 to $257Professionalmedian $62 · 10th to 90th $46 to $112
$50$100$200facility $123professional $62

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
$123.03
Median
$151.36
Typical High
$151.36
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$109.65
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$309.03
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$97.72
Typical High
$138.04
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$501.19
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$109.65
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$165.96
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$66.07
Typical High
$123.03
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$112.20
Typical High
$162.18
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$53.70
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$309.03
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$75.86
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$141.25
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$53.70
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$208.93
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$53.70
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$109.65
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$53.70
Typical High
$102.33

Where Idaho 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.

Idaho· 17th of 51

$63.10

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.