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Manual Stress Positioning for Joint X-ray

Mississippi 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?

$61.66

Typical negotiated rate. In Mississippi, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $61.66 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $58.88 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 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$58.88$45.71 to $83.18
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$95.50$79.43 to $110

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $95 · 10th to 90th $48 to $158Professionalmedian $59 · 10th to 90th $41 to $102
$50$100$200facility $95professional $59

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
$47.86
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$109.65
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$104.71
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$128.82
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$95.50
Typical High
$104.71
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$52.48
Median
$52.48
Typical High
$52.48
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$64.57
Typical High
$79.43
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$37.15
Median
$53.70
Typical High
$91.20
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$158.49
Typical High
$173.78
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.90
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$75.86

Where Mississippi 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.

Mississippi· 24th of 51

$61.66

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.