Appendix Removal Cost in Louisiana — Compare All Hospitals
Surgery to remove the appendix, usually for appendicitis, in otherwise straightforward cases. Most stays are short, covering the operation and a brief recovery.
State average
$40,248
gross charge · DRG 399
Hospitals
18
with published pricing
Price range
$7,302 – $92,059
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Opelousas General Health System
Opelousas, LA
Gross charge $7,302Cash pay $3,651 - 2
Ochsner St. Anne Hospital
Raceland, LA
Gross charge $13,769Cash pay $6,058 - 3
Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge $14,463Cash pay $6,798 - 4
Bayou Bend Hospital
Franklin, LA
Gross charge $15,925Cash pay $11,148 - 5
St. Bernard Parish Hospital
Chalmette, LA
Gross charge $24,061Cash pay $7,699 - 6
Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $24,389Cash pay $6,341 - 7
West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital
Sulphur, LA
Gross charge $25,169Cash pay $18,877 - 8
Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner
Kenner, LA
Gross charge $28,191Cash pay $7,894 - 9
Ochsner Acadia General Hospital
Crowley, LA
Gross charge $32,747Cash pay $7,532 - 10
St. Tammany Parish Hospital
Covington, LA
Gross charge $40,573Cash pay $16,229 - 11
Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $41,722Cash pay $13,351 - 12Gross charge $52,092Cash pay $14,586
- 13
Ochsner LSU Health Monroe
Monroe, LA
Gross charge $53,667Cash pay $12,343 - 14
Womans Hospital
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $53,715 - 15
Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $58,403Cash pay $12,265 - 16Gross charge $68,967Cash pay $17,931
- 17
North Oaks Medical Center
Hammond, LA
Gross charge $77,250Cash pay $12,624 - 18
Ochsner St. Mary
Morgan City, LA
Gross charge $92,059Cash pay $18,412 - 19
Natchitoches Regional Medical Center
Natchitoches, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $9,806 - 20Gross charge —
- 21
Rapides Regional Medical Center
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 22
Abbeville General Hospital
Abbeville, LA
Gross charge — - 23
Lake Charles Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 24Gross charge —
- 25
Winn Parish Medical Center
Winnfield, LA
Gross charge — - 26
Avoyelles Hospital
Marksville, LA
Gross charge — - 27
Oakdale Community Hospital
Oakdale, LA
Gross charge — - 28
Claiborne Memorial Medical Center
Homer, LA
Gross charge — - 29
Minden Medical Center
Minden, LA
Gross charge — - 30
Glenwood Regional Medical Center
West Monroe, LA
Gross charge — - 31
Byrd Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Leesville, LA
Gross charge — - 32
Physicians Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge — - 33Gross charge —Cash pay $3,323
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- 35
Our Lady of the Lake Surgical Hospital
Slidell, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $13,818 - 36
Acadian Medical Center
Eunice, LA
Gross charge — - 37
Thibodaux Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Thibodaux, LA
Gross charge — - 38
Ochsner Medical Center Acute
New Orleans, LA
Gross charge — - 39
Sabine Medical Center
Many, LA
Gross charge — - 40
CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 41
Christus Shreveport-Bossier Health System
Shreveport, LA
Gross charge — - 42
St. Charles Parish Hospital
Luling, LA
Gross charge — - 43
CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 44
Ochsner St. Martin Hospital
Breaux Bridge, LA
Gross charge — - 45
Ochsner Abrom Kaplan Memorial Hospital
Kaplan, LA
Gross charge — - 46
Christus St Frances Cabrini Hospital (Acute Care)
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 47
Christus Central Louisiana Surgical Hospital
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 48
Mercy Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Ville Platte, LA
Gross charge — - 49
Christus Coushatta Health Care Center
Coushatta, LA
Gross charge —
Louisiana hospitals price appendix removal (Medicare DRG 399) anywhere from $7,302 to $92,059 — a $84,756 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Opelousas General Health System in Opelousas; the most expensive is Ochsner St. Mary in Morgan City. The state average sits at $40,248.
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 appendix removal 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 appendix removal 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 appendix removal in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 399 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.