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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

Joint X-ray with doctor applying stress to the joint

CPT 77071the billing code this page is about

X-ray of a joint taken while the physician manually holds the joint under stress, including the matching joint on the other side when needed.

Hospitals typically charge $167 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,122 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $184. Most fall between $97 and $339 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,122
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 1,122 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$70$102$167$298$438

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($70 vs $438).

How the prices are spread

$49 – $64: 40 hospitals$49$64 – $84: 68 hospitals$84 – $109: 168 hospitals$84$109 – $142: 135 hospitals$142 – $185: 151 hospitals$142$185 – $241: 114 hospitals$241 – $314: 146 hospitals$241$314 – $409: 100 hospitals$409 – $532: 56 hospitals$409$532 – $693: 33 hospitals$532median $167price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,011 of 1,122 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$49$6440
$64$8468
$84$109168
$109$142135
$142$185151
$185$241114
$241$314146
$314$409100
$409$53256
$532$69333

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$167
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.88×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $167.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $161 across 15 hospitalsME$161Vermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $180 across 32 hospitalsWA$180Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $139 across 40 hospitalsMN$139Illinois: median $278 across 59 hospitalsIL$278Wisconsin: median $304 across 37 hospitalsWI$304Michigan: median $135 across 42 hospitalsMI$135New York: median $104 across 48 hospitalsNY$104Massachusetts: median $248 across 26 hospitalsMA$248Oregon: median $146 across 15 hospitalsOR$146Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $153 across 33 hospitalsIA$153Indiana: median $118 across 33 hospitalsIN$118Ohio: median $203 across 70 hospitalsOH$203Pennsylvania: median $103 across 56 hospitalsPA$103New Jersey: median $100 across 18 hospitalsNJ$100Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $362 across 94 hospitalsCA$362Utah: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $275 across 21 hospitalsCO$275Nebraska: median $153 across 22 hospitalsNE$153Missouri: median $227 across 19 hospitalsMO$227Kentucky: median $94 across 25 hospitalsKY$94West Virginia: median $117 across 15 hospitalsWV$117Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: median $316 across 12 hospitalsMD$316Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $155 across 24 hospitalsAZ$155New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $100 across 20 hospitalsKS$100Arkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $71 across 16 hospitalsTN$71North Carolina: median $153 across 37 hospitalsNC$153South Carolina: median $222 across 27 hospitalsSC$222Oklahoma: median $97 across 18 hospitalsOK$97Louisiana: median $86 across 21 hospitalsLA$86Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $85 across 10 hospitalsAL$85Georgia: median $205 across 15 hospitalsGA$205Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $147 across 57 hospitalsTX$147Florida: median $135 across 46 hospitalsFL$135
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $167. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA94$362+117%$146 – $717
Maryland MD12$316+90%$287 – $379
Wisconsin WI37$304+82%$116 – $410
Illinois IL59$278+67%$90 – $420
Colorado CO21$275+65%$166 – $301
Massachusetts MA26$248+49%$143 – $270
Missouri MO19$227+36%$116 – $652
South Carolina SC27$222+33%$96 – $261
Georgia GA15$205+23%$128 – $291
Ohio OH70$203+22%$157 – $395
Washington WA32$180+8%$119 – $276
Maine ME15$161−4%$88 – $387
Arizona AZ24$155−7%$89 – $584
Nebraska NE22$153−8%$85 – $290
North Carolina NC37$153−8%$126 – $420
Iowa IA33$153−8%$97 – $262
Texas TX57$147−12%$100 – $237
Oregon OR15$146−13%$99 – $157
Minnesota MN40$139−17%$121 – $176
Michigan MI42$135−19%$120 – $279
Florida FL46$135−19%$102 – $408
Indiana IN33$118−29%$61 – $177
West Virginia WV15$117−30%$62 – $218
New York NY48$104−38%$82 – $263
Pennsylvania PA56$103−38%$46 – $312
Kansas KS20$100−40%$65 – $183
New Jersey NJ18$100−40%$97 – $128
Oklahoma OK18$97−42%$46 – $173
Kentucky KY25$94−44%$65 – $188
Louisiana LA21$86−48%$57 – $200
Alabama AL10$85−49%$72 – $197
Tennessee TN16$71−58%$64 – $151
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $167.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care863$167$97 – $351
Children’s27$272$116 – $336
Critical access229$161$96 – $304
Ownership
For-profit99$200$96 – $550
Government154$153$97 – $316
Non-profit866$167$97 – $333
System affiliation
Part of a system936$169$97 – $339
Independent186$157$93 – $309

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$271
Median cash price$167
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

796 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $195 and the average of the middle 60% is $205; most fall between $102 and $366.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 796 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$74$112$195$319$470

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($74 vs $470).

Of the 886 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 796 gave a usable cash price; 57 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 33 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,122 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (28%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,269 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,122
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here108
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded38
Hospitals that filed this code1,269

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Manual Appl Stress Phys/Qhp Joint Radiography.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Joint X-ray with doctor applying stress to the joint (CPT 77071) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-77071-joint-x-ray-with-doctor-applying-stress-to-the-joint