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Manual Stress Positioning for Joint X-ray

Tennessee 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?

$50.12

Typical negotiated rate. In Tennessee, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $50.12 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $48.98 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 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$48.98$45.71 to $72.44
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$100$69.18 to $178

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $100 · 10th to 90th $63 to $257Professionalmedian $49 · 10th to 90th $41 to $105
$10$20$50$100$200$500facility $100professional $49

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
$63.10
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$245.47
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$47.86
Typical High
$104.71
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$42.66
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$100.00
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$46.77
Median
$51.29
Typical High
$104.71
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$263.03
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$57.54
Typical High
$109.65
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$363.08
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$457.09
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$25.70
Median
$81.28
Typical High
$177.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$29.51
Median
$53.70
Typical High
$97.72

Where Tennessee 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.

Tennessee· 47th of 51

$50.12

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.