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Manual Stress Positioning for Joint X-ray

Montana 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 Montana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $61.66 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $60.26 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$60.26$45.71 to $66.07
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$95.50$83.18 to $117

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $95 · 10th to 90th $65 to $263Professionalmedian $60 · 10th to 90th $45 to $145
$100$1K$10K$100Kfacility $95professional $60

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
$4,073.80
Median
$4,073.80
Typical High
$4,073.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$60.26
Typical High
$144.54
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$69,183.10
Typical High
$91,201.08
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$87.10
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$87.10
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$107.15
Typical High
$316.23
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$29.51
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$141.25
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$95.50
Typical High
$181.97
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$95.50
Typical High
$181.97
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$44.67
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$123.03
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$67.61
Median
$107.15
Typical High
$147.91
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$79.43
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$38.02
Median
$53.70
Typical High
$91.20

Where Montana 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.

Montana· 20th 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.