Bone & Joint Disease Cost in Louisiana — Compare All Hospitals
A painful flare-up of a bone or joint condition, such as severe arthritis, gout, or a bone disorder, managed without surgery. The stay usually involves pain control, medications, imaging, and physical therapy to get moving again.
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Opelousas General Health System
Opelousas, LA
Gross charge $5,423Cash pay $2,712 - 2
Lasalle General Hospital
Jena, LA
Gross charge $7,483Cash pay $4,490 - 3
Ochsner St. Mary
Morgan City, LA
Gross charge $8,629Cash pay $1,726 - 4Gross charge $17,368Cash pay $4,863
- 5
Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $18,208Cash pay $4,734 - 6
Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $23,542Cash pay $7,533 - 7
St. Bernard Parish Hospital
Chalmette, LA
Gross charge $25,764Cash pay $8,245 - 8
Ochsner Medical Center Acute
New Orleans, LA
Gross charge $27,373Cash pay $8,212 - 9
Ochsner St. Martin Hospital
Breaux Bridge, LA
Gross charge $27,373Cash pay $8,212 - 10
St. Tammany Parish Hospital
Covington, LA
Gross charge $32,929Cash pay $13,172 - 11
Jackson Parish Hospital
Jonesboro, LA
Gross charge $34,758 - 12
Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $36,346Cash pay $7,633 - 13
Ochsner LSU Health Monroe
Monroe, LA
Gross charge $36,690Cash pay $8,439 - 14Gross charge $43,962Cash pay $11,430
- 15
Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner
Kenner, LA
Gross charge $56,853Cash pay $15,919 - 16
North Oaks Medical Center
Hammond, LA
Gross charge $61,335Cash pay $9,373 - 17
Natchitoches Regional Medical Center
Natchitoches, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $7,240 - 18Gross charge —
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West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital
Sulphur, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $1,365 - 20
Rapides Regional Medical Center
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 21
Abbeville General Hospital
Abbeville, LA
Gross charge — - 22
Lake Charles Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 23Gross charge —
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Winn Parish Medical Center
Winnfield, LA
Gross charge — - 25
Avoyelles Hospital
Marksville, LA
Gross charge — - 26
Oakdale Community Hospital
Oakdale, LA
Gross charge — - 27
Claiborne Memorial Medical Center
Homer, LA
Gross charge — - 28
Minden Medical Center
Minden, LA
Gross charge — - 29
Glenwood Regional Medical Center
West Monroe, LA
Gross charge — - 30
Byrd Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Leesville, LA
Gross charge — - 31
Physicians Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge — - 32Gross charge —Cash pay $4,042
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Our Lady of the Lake Surgical Hospital
Slidell, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $10,262 - 35
Acadian Medical Center
Eunice, LA
Gross charge — - 36
LSU Lallie Kemp Medical Center
Independence, LA
Gross charge — - 37
Thibodaux Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Thibodaux, LA
Gross charge — - 38
Sabine Medical Center
Many, LA
Gross charge — - 39
CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 40
Christus Shreveport-Bossier Health System
Shreveport, LA
Gross charge — - 41
Ochsner Acadia General Hospital
Crowley, 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 Abrom Kaplan Memorial Hospital
Kaplan, LA
Gross charge — - 45
Ochsner St. Anne Hospital
Raceland, LA
Gross charge — - 46
Christus St Frances Cabrini Hospital (Acute Care)
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 47
Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge — - 48
Christus Central Louisiana Surgical Hospital
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 49
Mercy Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Ville Platte, LA
Gross charge — - 50
Christus Coushatta Health Care Center
Coushatta, LA
Gross charge —
Louisiana hospitals price bone & joint disease (Medicare DRG 554) anywhere from $5,423 to $61,335 — a $55,912 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Opelousas General Health System in Opelousas; the most expensive is North Oaks Medical Center in Hammond. The state average sits at $29,002.
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 & joint disease at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
If you're scheduling bone & joint disease 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 & joint disease in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 554 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.