DRG 539 · Musculoskeletal

Bone Infection Cost in Louisiana — Compare All Hospitals

An infection inside a bone (osteomyelitis), which requires long courses of IV antibiotics and sometimes procedures to remove infected tissue. The stay involves antibiotics, imaging, and close monitoring.

State average
$178,565
gross charge · DRG 539
Hospitals
21
with published pricing
Price range
$12,448 – $266,346
low to high
Lowest $12,448 Highest $266,346

Louisiana hospitals price bone infection (Medicare DRG 539) anywhere from $12,448 to $266,346 — a $253,898 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Bayou Bend Hospital in Franklin; the most expensive is Ochsner Medical Center Acute in New Orleans. The state average sits at $178,565.

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 bone infection at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.

If you're scheduling bone infection 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 bone infection in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 539 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.

Hospitals ranked by gross charge

  1. 1

    Bayou Bend Hospital

    Franklin, LA

    Gross charge $12,448
    Cash pay $8,714
  2. 2

    Opelousas General Health System

    Opelousas, LA

    Gross charge $13,141
    Cash pay $6,571
  3. 3

    Lasalle General Hospital

    Jena, LA

    Gross charge $13,178
    Cash pay $7,907
  4. 4

    St. Tammany Parish Hospital

    Covington, LA

    Gross charge $27,935
    Cash pay $11,174
  5. 5

    North Oaks Medical Center

    Hammond, LA

    Gross charge $141,378
    Cash pay $12,040
  6. 6

    Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center

    Lafayette, LA

    Gross charge $218,362
    Cash pay $48,040
  7. 7

    Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics

    Lafayette, LA

    Gross charge $218,362
    Cash pay $48,040
  8. 8

    Ochsner LSU Health Monroe

    Monroe, LA

    Gross charge $218,362
    Cash pay $50,223
  9. 9

    Ochsner St. Mary

    Morgan City, LA

    Gross charge $218,362
    Cash pay $50,223
  10. 10

    Ochsner Acadia General Hospital

    Crowley, LA

    Gross charge $218,362
    Cash pay $48,040
  11. 11
    Gross charge $218,362
    Cash pay $50,223
  12. 12
    Gross charge $218,362
    Cash pay $50,223
  13. 13

    Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center

    Houma, LA

    Gross charge $218,362
    Cash pay $50,223
  14. 14

    Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge

    Baton Rouge, LA

    Gross charge $218,362
    Cash pay $50,223
  15. 15

    Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner

    Kenner, LA

    Gross charge $218,362
    Cash pay $50,223
  16. 16

    St. Bernard Parish Hospital

    Chalmette, LA

    Gross charge $218,362
    Cash pay $50,223
  17. 17
    Gross charge $218,362
    Cash pay $50,223
  18. 18

    Ochsner St. Martin Hospital

    Breaux Bridge, LA

    Gross charge $218,362
    Cash pay $48,040
  19. 19
    Gross charge $218,362
    Cash pay $48,040
  20. 20
    Gross charge $218,362
    Cash pay $50,223
  21. 21

    Ochsner Medical Center Acute

    New Orleans, LA

    Gross charge $266,346
    Cash pay $79,904
  22. 22

    Natchitoches Regional Medical Center

    Natchitoches, LA

    Gross charge
    Cash pay $17,481
  23. 23

    Terrebonne General Medical Center - Parish

    Houma, LA

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  24. 24

    Rapides Regional Medical Center

    Alexandria, LA

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  25. 25

    CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital

    Lake Charles, LA

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  26. 26

    Abbeville General Hospital

    Abbeville, LA

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  27. 27

    Christus Shreveport-Bossier Health System

    Shreveport, LA

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  28. 28

    Lake Charles Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)

    Lake Charles, LA

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  31. 31

    Avoyelles Hospital

    Marksville, LA

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  32. 32

    Oakdale Community Hospital

    Oakdale, LA

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  33. 33

    Claiborne Memorial Medical Center

    Homer, LA

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  34. 34

    Minden Medical Center

    Minden, LA

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  35. 35

    Glenwood Regional Medical Center

    West Monroe, LA

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  36. 36

    Byrd Regional Hospital (Acute Care)

    Leesville, LA

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  37. 37
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  38. 38
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  39. 39
    Gross charge
    Cash pay $9,933
  40. 40
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  41. 41
    Gross charge
    Cash pay $24,866
  42. 42
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  43. 43

    Acadian Medical Center

    Eunice, LA

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  44. 44
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  45. 45

    Thibodaux Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Thibodaux, LA

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  46. 46

    Mercy Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Ville Platte, LA

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  47. 47
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  48. 48

    Christus Coushatta Health Care Center

    Coushatta, LA

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