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
$81,558
gross charge · DRG 539
Hospitals
14
with published pricing
Price range
$11,056 – $266,346
low to high
Lowest $11,056 Highest $266,346

Louisiana hospitals price bone infection (Medicare DRG 539) anywhere from $11,056 to $266,346 — a $255,290 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge in Baton Rouge; the most expensive is Ochsner St. Martin Hospital in Breaux Bridge. The state average sits at $81,558.

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

    Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge

    Baton Rouge, LA

    Gross charge $11,056
    Cash pay $3,538
  2. 2

    Bayou Bend Hospital

    Franklin, LA

    Gross charge $12,448
    Cash pay $8,714
  3. 3

    Opelousas General Health System

    Opelousas, LA

    Gross charge $13,141
    Cash pay $6,571
  4. 4

    Lasalle General Hospital

    Jena, LA

    Gross charge $13,178
    Cash pay $7,907
  5. 5

    Ochsner Acadia General Hospital

    Crowley, LA

    Gross charge $21,327
    Cash pay $4,905
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    St. Tammany Parish Hospital

    Covington, LA

    Gross charge $27,935
    Cash pay $11,174
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    Ochsner LSU Health Monroe

    Monroe, LA

    Gross charge $31,330
    Cash pay $7,206
  8. 8

    Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner

    Kenner, LA

    Gross charge $36,211
    Cash pay $10,139
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    Gross charge $47,605
    Cash pay $12,377
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    Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics

    Lafayette, LA

    Gross charge $60,253
    Cash pay $15,666
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    North Oaks Medical Center

    Hammond, LA

    Gross charge $141,378
    Cash pay $12,040
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    Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center

    Lafayette, LA

    Gross charge $193,262
    Cash pay $40,585
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    Ochsner Medical Center Acute

    New Orleans, LA

    Gross charge $266,346
    Cash pay $79,904
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    Ochsner St. Martin Hospital

    Breaux Bridge, LA

    Gross charge $266,346
    Cash pay $79,904
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    Natchitoches Regional Medical Center

    Natchitoches, LA

    Gross charge —
    Cash pay $17,481
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    Terrebonne General Medical Center - Parish

    Houma, LA

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    Rapides Regional Medical Center

    Alexandria, LA

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    Abbeville General Hospital

    Abbeville, LA

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    Lake Charles Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)

    Lake Charles, LA

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    Avoyelles Hospital

    Marksville, LA

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    Oakdale Community Hospital

    Oakdale, LA

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    Claiborne Memorial Medical Center

    Homer, LA

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    Minden Medical Center

    Minden, LA

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    Glenwood Regional Medical Center

    West Monroe, LA

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    Byrd Regional Hospital (Acute Care)

    Leesville, LA

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    Cash pay $9,933
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    Cash pay $24,866
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    Acadian Medical Center

    Eunice, LA

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    Thibodaux Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Thibodaux, LA

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    Ochsner St. Mary

    Morgan City, LA

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    CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital

    Lake Charles, LA

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    Christus Shreveport-Bossier Health System

    Shreveport, LA

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    St. Bernard Parish Hospital

    Chalmette, LA

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    Christus St Frances Cabrini Hospital (Acute Care)

    Alexandria, LA

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    Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center

    Houma, LA

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    Mercy Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Ville Platte, LA

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    Christus Coushatta Health Care Center

    Coushatta, LA

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