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Manual Stress Positioning for Joint X-ray

New Jersey 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?

$53.70

Typical negotiated rate. In New Jersey, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $53.70 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $52.48 from a physician practice, and about $148 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$52.48$45.71 to $63.10
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$148$112 to $204

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $148 · 10th to 90th $95 to $380Professionalmedian $52 · 10th to 90th $38 to $102
$50$100$200$500facility $148professional $52

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
$144.54
Typical High
$380.19
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$38.02
Median
$52.48
Typical High
$102.33
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$37.15
Median
$56.23
Typical High
$83.18
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$257.04
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$58.88
Typical High
$109.65
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$69.18
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$100.00
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$9,772.37
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$53.70
Typical High
$109.65
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$131.83
Typical High
$218.78
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33.88
Median
$53.70
Typical High
$100.00

Where New Jersey 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.

New Jersey· 40th of 51

$53.70

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.