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Manual Stress Positioning for Joint X-ray

Kansas 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 Kansas, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $66.07 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $60.26 from a physician practice, and about $105 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 6 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$60.26$47.86 to $66.07
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$105$85.11 to $117

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $105 · 10th to 90th $60 to $251Professionalmedian $60 · 10th to 90th $38 to $79
$50$100$200facility $105professional $60

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
$60.26
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$257.04
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$38.02
Median
$52.48
Typical High
$79.43
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$42.66
Median
$42.66
Typical High
$79.43
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$109.65
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$66.07
Typical High
$66.07
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$120.23
Typical High
$245.47
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$102.33
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$47.86
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$125.89
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33.88
Median
$58.88
Typical High
$354.81
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$177.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33.88
Median
$53.70
Typical High
$91.20

Where Kansas 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.

Kansas· 12th 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.