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Manual Stress Positioning for Joint X-ray

Illinois 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?

$66.07

Typical negotiated rate. In Illinois, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $66.07 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $63.10 from a physician practice, and about $97.72 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$63.10$50.12 to $91.20
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$97.72$74.13 to $138

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $98 · 10th to 90th $54 to $263Professionalmedian $63 · 10th to 90th $44 to $132
$50$100$200$500$1Kfacility $98professional $63

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
$53.70
Median
$81.28
Typical High
$138.04
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$60.26
Typical High
$104.71
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$83.18
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$741.31
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$91.20
Typical High
$131.83
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$416.87
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$38.02
Median
$66.07
Typical High
$100.00
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$63.10
Median
$123.03
Typical High
$199.53
Hally Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$64.57
Median
$64.57
Typical High
$72.44
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$229.09
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$36.31
Median
$57.54
Typical High
$97.72

Where Illinois 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.

Illinois· 13th of 51

$66.07

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.