Medical Back Problems Cost in Louisiana — Compare All Hospitals
Hospitalization for medical (non-surgical) back conditions including herniated discs, severe radiculopathy, and chronic pain crises.
State average
$38,621
gross charge · DRG 552
Hospitals
19
with published pricing
Price range
$3,987 – $139,456
low to high
Data notes for Louisiana
- The lowest published charge ($3,987 at Bayou Bend Hospital) is unusually low for an inpatient stay. This may reflect a data-quality issue in the hospital's MRF rather than an actual price — verify directly with the hospital before relying on it.
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Bayou Bend Hospital
Franklin, LA
Gross charge $3,987Cash pay $2,791 - 2
Opelousas General Health System
Opelousas, LA
Gross charge $6,263Cash pay $3,131 - 3
Lasalle General Hospital
Jena, LA
Gross charge $8,592Cash pay $5,155 - 4
East Carroll Parish Hospital
Lake Providence, LA
Gross charge $8,866Cash pay $6,649 - 5
Ochsner St. Anne Hospital
Raceland, LA
Gross charge $21,404Cash pay $9,418 - 6
Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $24,348Cash pay $7,791 - 7
Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $26,569Cash pay $6,908 - 8
Ochsner St. Mary
Morgan City, LA
Gross charge $28,719Cash pay $5,744 - 9
Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner
Kenner, LA
Gross charge $29,139Cash pay $8,159 - 10
St. Charles Parish Hospital
Luling, LA
Gross charge $31,031Cash pay $8,378 - 11
West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital
Sulphur, LA
Gross charge $37,960Cash pay $28,470 - 12
Ochsner LSU Health Monroe
Monroe, LA
Gross charge $41,409Cash pay $9,524 - 13Gross charge $44,403Cash pay $11,545Medicare pays (avg) $8,188
- 14
North Oaks Medical Center
Hammond, LA
Gross charge $51,969Cash pay $10,823 - 15
Ochsner Medical Center Acute
New Orleans, LA
Gross charge $52,614Cash pay $15,784Medicare pays (avg) $5,945 - 16
Ochsner St. Martin Hospital
Breaux Bridge, LA
Gross charge $52,614Cash pay $15,784 - 17
Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $59,365Cash pay $12,467Medicare pays (avg) $5,132 - 18
St. Tammany Parish Hospital
Covington, LA
Gross charge $65,089Cash pay $26,035Medicare pays (avg) $4,486 - 19Gross charge $139,456Cash pay $39,048
- 20
Natchitoches Regional Medical Center
Natchitoches, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $8,512 - 21Gross charge —
- 22
Rapides Regional Medical Center
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,252 - 23
Abbeville General Hospital
Abbeville, LA
Gross charge — - 24
Lake Charles Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 25Gross charge —
- 26
Winn Parish Medical Center
Winnfield, LA
Gross charge — - 27
Avoyelles Hospital
Marksville, LA
Gross charge — - 28
Oakdale Community Hospital
Oakdale, LA
Gross charge — - 29
Claiborne Memorial Medical Center
Homer, LA
Gross charge — - 30
Minden Medical Center
Minden, LA
Gross charge — - 31
Glenwood Regional Medical Center
West Monroe, LA
Gross charge — - 32
Byrd Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Leesville, LA
Gross charge — - 33
Physicians Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge — - 34Gross charge —Cash pay $4,811
- 35Gross charge —
- 36
Our Lady of the Lake Surgical Hospital
Slidell, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $11,850 - 37
Acadian Medical Center
Eunice, LA
Gross charge — - 38
LSU Lallie Kemp Medical Center
Independence, LA
Gross charge — - 39
Thibodaux Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Thibodaux, LA
Gross charge — - 40
Mercy Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Ville Platte, LA
Gross charge — - 41
Sabine Medical Center
Many, LA
Gross charge — - 42
Christus Coushatta Health Care Center
Coushatta, LA
Gross charge — - 43
CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $6,626 - 44
Christus Shreveport-Bossier Health System
Shreveport, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,118 - 45
Ochsner Acadia General Hospital
Crowley, LA
Gross charge — - 46
CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 47
St. Bernard Parish Hospital
Chalmette, LA
Gross charge — - 48
Ochsner Abrom Kaplan Memorial Hospital
Kaplan, LA
Gross charge — - 49
Christus St Frances Cabrini Hospital (Acute Care)
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 50
Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge — - 51
Christus Central Louisiana Surgical Hospital
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge —
Louisiana hospitals price medical back problems (Medicare DRG 552) anywhere from $3,987 to $139,456 — a $135,469 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Bayou Bend Hospital in Franklin; the most expensive is Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - Academic Medical Center (St Mary Pl) in Shreveport. The state average sits at $38,621.
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 medical 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 medical 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 medical back problems in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 552 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.