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Manual Stress Positioning for Joint X-ray

Missouri 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?

$57.54

Typical negotiated rate. In Missouri, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $57.54 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $57.54 from a physician practice, and about $95.50 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$57.54$47.86 to $79.43
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$95.50$54.95 to $117

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $95 · 10th to 90th $49 to $166Professionalmedian $58 · 10th to 90th $44 to $112
$50$100$200facility $95professional $58

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
$52.48
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$165.96
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$57.54
Typical High
$114.82
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$42.66
Median
$75.86
Typical High
$93.33
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$89.13
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$57.54
Typical High
$102.33
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$64.57
Typical High
$77.62
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$338.84
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$37.15
Median
$60.26
Typical High
$104.71
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$134.90
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$38.90
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$354.81
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$177.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$38.02
Median
$56.23
Typical High
$102.33

Where Missouri 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.

Missouri· 32nd of 51

$57.54

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.