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Manual Stress Positioning for Joint X-ray

Minnesota 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?

$97.72

Typical negotiated rate. In Minnesota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $97.72 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $91.20 from a physician practice, and about $191 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$91.20$56.23 to $148
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$191$141 to $331

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $191 · 10th to 90th $60 to $427Professionalmedian $91 · 10th to 90th $46 to $195
$50$100$200$500facility $191professional $91

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
$56.23
Median
$56.23
Typical High
$213.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$41.69
Median
$56.23
Typical High
$151.36
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$645.65
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$194.98
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$549.54
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$52.48
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$165.96
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$426.58
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$81.28
Typical High
$128.82
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$47.86
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$144.54
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$81.28
Typical High
$354.81
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$309.03
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$48.98
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$177.83

Where Minnesota 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.

Minnesota· 4th of 51

$97.72

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.