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Manual Stress Positioning for Joint X-ray

Massachusetts 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?

$70.79

Typical negotiated rate. In Massachusetts, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $70.79 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $70.79 from a physician practice, and about $110 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 8 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$70.79$47.86 to $112
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$110$81.28 to $141

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $110 · 10th to 90th $60 to $195Professionalmedian $71 · 10th to 90th $39 to $155
$50$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $110professional $71

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
$37.15
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$213.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$37.15
Median
$53.70
Typical High
$128.82
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$363.08
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33.88
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$354.81
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$70.79
Median
$97.72
Typical High
$128.82
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$74.13
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$275.42
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$37.15
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$154.88
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$85.11
Typical High
$1,995.26
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$131.83
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$91.20
Typical High
$158.49
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$363.08
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33.88
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$354.81
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$24.55
Median
$120.23
Typical High
$288.40
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$177.83

Where Massachusetts 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.

Massachusetts· 10th of 51

$70.79

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.