Back Problems Cost in Louisiana — Compare All Hospitals
Back or spine problems, such as disc disease, spinal narrowing, or severe back pain, treated without surgery. The stay typically involves pain control, medication, and physical therapy.
State average
$72,695
gross charge · DRG 551
Hospitals
13
with published pricing
Price range
$8,472 – $176,592
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1Gross charge $8,472Cash pay $2,372
- 2
Opelousas General Health System
Opelousas, LA
Gross charge $11,088Cash pay $5,544 - 3
Lasalle General Hospital
Jena, LA
Gross charge $14,345Cash pay $8,607 - 4
Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $29,059Cash pay $9,299 - 5
Ochsner St. Mary
Morgan City, LA
Gross charge $40,640Cash pay $8,128 - 6
Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner
Kenner, LA
Gross charge $47,566Cash pay $13,318 - 7
St. Tammany Parish Hospital
Covington, LA
Gross charge $53,147Cash pay $21,259 - 8Gross charge $53,661Cash pay $13,952
- 9
North Oaks Medical Center
Hammond, LA
Gross charge $73,916Cash pay $19,162 - 10
Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $92,353Cash pay $19,394Medicare pays (avg) $9,903 - 11
Ochsner Abrom Kaplan Memorial Hospital
Kaplan, LA
Gross charge $167,597Cash pay $75,419 - 12
Ochsner Medical Center Acute
New Orleans, LA
Gross charge $176,592Cash pay $52,978 - 13
Ochsner St. Martin Hospital
Breaux Bridge, LA
Gross charge $176,592Cash pay $52,978 - 14
Natchitoches Regional Medical Center
Natchitoches, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $14,993 - 15Gross charge —
- 16
Rapides Regional Medical Center
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 17
Abbeville General Hospital
Abbeville, LA
Gross charge — - 18
Lake Charles Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 19Gross charge —
- 20
Winn Parish Medical Center
Winnfield, LA
Gross charge — - 21
Avoyelles Hospital
Marksville, LA
Gross charge — - 22
Oakdale Community Hospital
Oakdale, LA
Gross charge — - 23
Claiborne Memorial Medical Center
Homer, LA
Gross charge — - 24
Minden Medical Center
Minden, LA
Gross charge — - 25
Glenwood Regional Medical Center
West Monroe, LA
Gross charge — - 26
Byrd Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Leesville, LA
Gross charge — - 27
Physicians Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge — - 28Gross charge —Cash pay $8,300
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- 30
Our Lady of the Lake Surgical Hospital
Slidell, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $20,981 - 31
Acadian Medical Center
Eunice, LA
Gross charge — - 32
LSU Lallie Kemp Medical Center
Independence, LA
Gross charge — - 33
Thibodaux Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Thibodaux, LA
Gross charge — - 34
Sabine Medical Center
Many, LA
Gross charge — - 35
Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge — - 36
Ochsner LSU Health Monroe
Monroe, LA
Gross charge — - 37
CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 38
Christus Shreveport-Bossier Health System
Shreveport, LA
Gross charge — - 39
Ochsner Acadia General Hospital
Crowley, LA
Gross charge — - 40
St. Charles Parish Hospital
Luling, LA
Gross charge — - 41
CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 42
St. Bernard Parish Hospital
Chalmette, LA
Gross charge — - 43
Ochsner St. Anne Hospital
Raceland, LA
Gross charge — - 44
Christus St Frances Cabrini Hospital (Acute Care)
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 45
Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge — - 46
Christus Central Louisiana Surgical Hospital
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 47
Mercy Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Ville Platte, LA
Gross charge — - 48
Christus Coushatta Health Care Center
Coushatta, LA
Gross charge —
Louisiana hospitals price back problems (Medicare DRG 551) anywhere from $8,472 to $176,592 — a $168,121 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - Academic Medical Center (St Mary Pl) in Shreveport; the most expensive is Ochsner St. Martin Hospital in Breaux Bridge. The state average sits at $72,695.
Gross charges are the hospital's list price for the facility part of your stay — the room, operating-room time, nursing, and equipment. 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 back problems at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
If you're scheduling back problems in Louisiana, sort the list below by price, then click each hospital name to see its quality profile — CMS overall star rating, surgical-safety measures, readmission rates, patient-experience scores. The cheapest hospital isn't always the right call. Teaching hospitals often charge more because they take complex cases, and a higher-rated community hospital may deliver equivalent outcomes for a straightforward case at a lower price. Use the price column to narrow the field; use the quality data to make the final call.
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 back problems in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 551 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.