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Manual Stress Positioning for Joint X-ray

Oregon 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?

$75.86

Typical negotiated rate. In Oregon, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $75.86 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $74.13 from a physician practice, and about $100 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 8 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$74.13$56.23 to $115
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$100$75.86 to $107

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $100 · 10th to 90th $58 to $166Professionalmedian $74 · 10th to 90th $45 to $151
$50$100$200facility $100professional $74

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
$91.20
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$380.19
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$42.66
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$141.25
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$302.00
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$154.88
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$147.91
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$46.77
Median
$75.86
Typical High
$120.23
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$165.96
Pacific Source
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$64.57
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$107.15
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$48.98
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$141.25
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$74.13
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$154.88
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$363.08
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$117.49
Typical High
$158.49
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$263.03
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$60.26
Typical High
$154.88

Where Oregon 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.

Oregon· 7th of 51

$75.86

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.