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Manual Stress Positioning for Joint X-ray

Michigan 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 Michigan, 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 $107 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$61.66$50.12 to $81.28
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$107$87.10 to $148

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $107 · 10th to 90th $63 to $275Professionalmedian $62 · 10th to 90th $41 to $100
$50$100$200facility $107professional $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
$63.10
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$275.42
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$100.00
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$58.88
Typical High
$83.18
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$257.04
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$91.20
Typical High
$100.00
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.90
Median
$56.23
Typical High
$125.89
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$63.10
Median
$120.23
Typical High
$194.98
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$57.54
Typical High
$100.00
Priority Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$52.48
Typical High
$81.28
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$69.18
Median
$81.28
Typical High
$245.47
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$37.15
Median
$53.70
Typical High
$95.50

Where Michigan 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.

Michigan· 16th 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.