C-Section Cost in Louisiana — Compare All Hospitals
Delivery of a baby through a surgical incision in the abdomen. The stay includes the operation and a few days of recovery care for mother and baby.
State average
$24,326
gross charge · DRG 788
Hospitals
13
with published pricing
Price range
$5,879 – $51,926
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Opelousas General Health System
Opelousas, LA
Gross charge $5,879Cash pay $2,939 - 2
Bayou Bend Hospital
Franklin, LA
Gross charge $9,624Cash pay $6,737 - 3
West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital
Sulphur, LA
Gross charge $11,105Cash pay $8,329 - 4
Ochsner St. Anne Hospital
Raceland, LA
Gross charge $16,640Cash pay $7,322 - 5
Womans Hospital
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $18,447 - 6
Iberia Medical Center (Acute Care)
New Iberia, LA
Gross charge $19,720Cash pay $11,832 - 7
St. Tammany Parish Hospital
Covington, LA
Gross charge $22,058Cash pay $8,823 - 8
Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner
Kenner, LA
Gross charge $23,222Cash pay $6,502 - 9
Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $23,360Cash pay $7,475 - 10
Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $36,670Cash pay $7,701 - 11
North Oaks Medical Center
Hammond, LA
Gross charge $36,992Cash pay $8,298 - 12
Ochsner LSU Health Monroe
Monroe, LA
Gross charge $40,597Cash pay $9,337 - 13Gross charge $51,926Cash pay $14,539
- 14
Natchitoches Regional Medical Center
Natchitoches, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $7,532 - 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 $4,526
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- 30
Our Lady of the Lake Surgical Hospital
Slidell, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $11,124 - 31
Acadian Medical Center
Eunice, LA
Gross charge — - 32
Thibodaux Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Thibodaux, LA
Gross charge — - 33
Ochsner Medical Center Acute
New Orleans, LA
Gross charge — - 34
Sabine Medical Center
Many, LA
Gross charge — - 35
Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge — - 36
Ochsner St. Mary
Morgan City, 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 — - 41Gross charge —
- 42
CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 43
St. Bernard Parish Hospital
Chalmette, LA
Gross charge — - 44
Ochsner St. Martin Hospital
Breaux Bridge, LA
Gross charge — - 45
Ochsner Abrom Kaplan Memorial Hospital
Kaplan, 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 c-section (Medicare DRG 788) anywhere from $5,879 to $51,926 — a $46,047 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Opelousas General Health System in Opelousas; the most expensive is Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - Academic Medical Center (St Mary Pl) in Shreveport. The state average sits at $24,326.
Gross charges are list prices, not what most patients pay. 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 c-section at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
For c-section in Louisiana, the price below is each hospital's gross charge for the facility portion of delivery — your actual out-of-pocket depends on insurance, length of stay, complications, and whether the obstetrician bills separately. Click any hospital name for its full maternity profile, including CMS star rating, patient-experience scores, and (where designated) the CMS Birthing-Friendly Hospital marker — a useful signal of maternity-care quality.
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 c-section in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 788 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.