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Manual Stress Positioning for Joint X-ray

Oklahoma 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?

$51.29

Typical negotiated rate. In Oklahoma, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $51.29 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $51.29 from a physician practice, and about $64.57 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 5 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$51.29$41.69 to $63.10
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$64.57$48.98 to $79.43

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $65 · 10th to 90th $43 to $269Professionalmedian $51 · 10th to 90th $35 to $69
$50$100$200$500facility $65professional $51

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
$42.66
Median
$64.57
Typical High
$269.15
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$45.71
Typical High
$63.10
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$51.29
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$77.62
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$38.02
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$363.08
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$46.77
Typical High
$83.18
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$38.90
Median
$60.26
Typical High
$208.93
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$37.15
Median
$52.48
Typical High
$354.81
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$208.93
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33.88
Median
$48.98
Typical High
$72.44

Where Oklahoma 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.

Oklahoma· 45th of 51

$51.29

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.