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Manual Stress Positioning for Joint X-ray

Kentucky 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?

$50.12

Typical negotiated rate. In Kentucky, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $50.12 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $50.12 from a physician practice, and about $51.29 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$50.12$40.74 to $61.66
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$51.29$50.12 to $93.33

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $51 · 10th to 90th $50 to $295Professionalmedian $50 · 10th to 90th $35 to $98
$50$100$200facility $51professional $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. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$295.12
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$38.02
Median
$51.29
Typical High
$104.71
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$64.57
Typical High
$72.44
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$41.69
Typical High
$58.88
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$47.86
Median
$64.57
Typical High
$83.18
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$47.86
Median
$67.61
Typical High
$79.43
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$93.33
Typical High
$288.40
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$36.31
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$281.84
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.39
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$23.99
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$181.97
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$28.18
Median
$46.77
Typical High
$85.11

Where Kentucky 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.

Kentucky· 46th of 51

$50.12

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.