Appendectomy Cost in Louisiana — Compare All Hospitals
Surgery to remove the appendix, usually because of appendicitis, an inflamed or ruptured appendix. The stay includes the operation, antibiotics, and recovery.
State average
$77,503
gross charge · DRG 397
Hospitals
10
with published pricing
Price range
$16,100 – $124,107
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Opelousas General Health System
Opelousas, LA
Gross charge $16,100Cash pay $8,050 - 2
Ochsner St. Anne Hospital
Raceland, LA
Gross charge $21,492Cash pay $9,457 - 3
St. Bernard Parish Hospital
Chalmette, LA
Gross charge $29,273Cash pay $9,367 - 4
Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $87,757Cash pay $18,429 - 5Gross charge $89,307Cash pay $23,220
- 6
Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $95,538Cash pay $24,840 - 7Gross charge $97,220Cash pay $27,222
- 8
North Oaks Medical Center
Hammond, LA
Gross charge $98,416Cash pay $27,823 - 9
St. Tammany Parish Hospital
Covington, LA
Gross charge $115,825Cash pay $46,330 - 10
Ochsner LSU Health Monroe
Monroe, LA
Gross charge $124,107Cash pay $28,545 - 11
Natchitoches Regional Medical Center
Natchitoches, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $19,791 - 12Gross charge —
- 13
Rapides Regional Medical Center
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 14
Abbeville General Hospital
Abbeville, LA
Gross charge — - 15
Lake Charles Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 16Gross charge —
- 17
Winn Parish Medical Center
Winnfield, LA
Gross charge — - 18
Avoyelles Hospital
Marksville, LA
Gross charge — - 19
Oakdale Community Hospital
Oakdale, LA
Gross charge — - 20
Claiborne Memorial Medical Center
Homer, LA
Gross charge — - 21
Minden Medical Center
Minden, LA
Gross charge — - 22
Glenwood Regional Medical Center
West Monroe, LA
Gross charge — - 23
Byrd Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Leesville, LA
Gross charge — - 24
Physicians Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge — - 25Gross charge —
- 26
Our Lady of the Lake Surgical Hospital
Slidell, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $30,466 - 27
Acadian Medical Center
Eunice, LA
Gross charge — - 28
Thibodaux Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Thibodaux, LA
Gross charge — - 29
Ochsner Medical Center Acute
New Orleans, LA
Gross charge — - 30
Sabine Medical Center
Many, LA
Gross charge — - 31
Ochsner St. Mary
Morgan City, LA
Gross charge — - 32
CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 33
Christus Shreveport-Bossier Health System
Shreveport, LA
Gross charge — - 34
Ochsner Acadia General Hospital
Crowley, LA
Gross charge — - 35
St. Charles Parish Hospital
Luling, LA
Gross charge — - 36
CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 37
Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge — - 38
Ochsner St. Martin Hospital
Breaux Bridge, LA
Gross charge — - 39
Ochsner Abrom Kaplan Memorial Hospital
Kaplan, LA
Gross charge — - 40
Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner
Kenner, LA
Gross charge — - 41
Christus St Frances Cabrini Hospital (Acute Care)
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 42
Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge — - 43
Christus Central Louisiana Surgical Hospital
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 44
Mercy Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Ville Platte, LA
Gross charge — - 45
Christus Coushatta Health Care Center
Coushatta, LA
Gross charge —
Louisiana hospitals price appendectomy (Medicare DRG 397) anywhere from $16,100 to $124,107 — a $108,007 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Opelousas General Health System in Opelousas; the most expensive is Ochsner LSU Health Monroe in Monroe. The state average sits at $77,503.
Gross charges are list prices, not what most patients pay. Insurance plans negotiate substantial discounts, Medicare and Medicaid pay fixed federal rates, and uninsured patients can usually qualify for a cash-pay discount. But the gross charge still works as a useful benchmark: a hospital that lists appendectomy at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
You usually don't choose a hospital during an urgent appendectomy admission. This page is for the planning side: patients with chronic conditions weighing their options, caregivers picking ahead of time, or employers comparing in-network facilities. Click any hospital name for its full quality profile — CMS overall star rating, mortality and readmission rates, patient-experience scores. When two nearby hospitals look similar on quality, the one with lower published charges is the safer default for routine medical admissions.
Pricing comes from each hospital's Machine-Readable File (MRF), published under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule. Louisiana hospitals missing from the list either don't perform appendectomy in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 397 in their most recent MRF, or fell below our data-quality thresholds (we filter out clearly erroneous entries like $0 charges). The list refreshes as hospitals update their files.