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Manual Stress Positioning for Joint X-ray

Nebraska 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?

$105

Typical negotiated rate. In Nebraska, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $105 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $95.50 from a physician practice, and about $178 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$95.50$57.54 to $132
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$178$100 to $339

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $178 · 10th to 90th $58 to $407Professionalmedian $95 · 10th to 90th $47 to $282
$50$100$200$500$1Kfacility $178professional $95

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
$95.50
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$389.05
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$46.77
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$295.12
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$131.83
Typical High
$131.83
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$1,023.29
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$97.72
Typical High
$102.33
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$295.12
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$112.20
Typical High
$162.18
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$42.66
Median
$85.11
Typical High
$147.91
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$42.66
Median
$77.62
Typical High
$354.81
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$186.21
Midlands
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$295.12
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$48.98
Typical High
$186.21
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$70.79
Median
$107.15
Typical High
$204.17
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$47.86
Median
$85.11
Typical High
$128.82

Where Nebraska 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.

Nebraska· 2nd of 51

$105

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.