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Manual Stress Positioning for Joint X-ray

Virginia 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?

$60.26

Typical negotiated rate. In Virginia, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $60.26 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $56.23 from a physician practice, and about $81.28 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$56.23$45.71 to $75.86
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$81.28$53.70 to $145

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $81 · 10th to 90th $46 to $263Professionalmedian $56 · 10th to 90th $41 to $100
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $81professional $56

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
$45.71
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$288.40
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$52.48
Typical High
$89.13
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$302.00
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$67.61
Typical High
$102.33
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$51.29
Median
$64.57
Typical High
$128.82
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$776.25
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$53.70
Typical High
$112.20
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$85.11
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$64.57
Median
$81.28
Typical High
$120.23
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$64.57
Typical High
$102.33
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.95
Median
$19.95
Typical High
$89.13
Sentara
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$181.97
Sentara
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$181.97
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$26.92
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$186.21
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$26.92
Median
$52.48
Typical High
$100.00

Where Virginia 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.

Virginia· 27th of 51

$60.26

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.