C-Section Cost in Louisiana — Compare All Hospitals
A cesarean birth, without tubal ligation, for a mother with serious health complications. The stay covers the surgery, close monitoring of mother and baby, and recovery.
State average
$43,372
gross charge · DRG 786
Hospitals
14
with published pricing
Price range
$9,936 – $136,135
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital
Sulphur, LA
Gross charge $9,936Cash pay $7,452 - 2
Opelousas General Health System
Opelousas, LA
Gross charge $10,500Cash pay $5,250 - 3
Ochsner St. Anne Hospital
Raceland, LA
Gross charge $10,936Cash pay $4,812 - 4
Bayou Bend Hospital
Franklin, LA
Gross charge $11,166Cash pay $7,816 - 5
Iberia Medical Center (Acute Care)
New Iberia, LA
Gross charge $22,754Cash pay $13,653 - 6
St. Tammany Parish Hospital
Covington, LA
Gross charge $22,942Cash pay $9,177 - 7
Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner
Kenner, LA
Gross charge $23,362Cash pay $6,541 - 8
Womans Hospital
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $23,406 - 9Gross charge $43,946Cash pay $12,305
- 10
North Oaks Medical Center
Hammond, LA
Gross charge $49,004Cash pay $8,298 - 11
Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $52,837Cash pay $16,908 - 12
Ochsner LSU Health Monroe
Monroe, LA
Gross charge $82,273Cash pay $18,923 - 13Gross charge $108,005Cash pay $28,081
- 14
Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $136,135Cash pay $28,588 - 15
Natchitoches Regional Medical Center
Natchitoches, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $15,412 - 16Gross charge —
- 17
Rapides Regional Medical Center
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 18
Abbeville General Hospital
Abbeville, LA
Gross charge — - 19
Lake Charles Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 20Gross charge —
- 21
Winn Parish Medical Center
Winnfield, LA
Gross charge — - 22
Avoyelles Hospital
Marksville, LA
Gross charge — - 23
Oakdale Community Hospital
Oakdale, LA
Gross charge — - 24
Claiborne Memorial Medical Center
Homer, LA
Gross charge — - 25
Minden Medical Center
Minden, LA
Gross charge — - 26
Glenwood Regional Medical Center
West Monroe, LA
Gross charge — - 27
Byrd Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Leesville, LA
Gross charge — - 28
Physicians Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge — - 29Gross charge —Cash pay $8,131
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- 31
Our Lady of the Lake Surgical Hospital
Slidell, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $19,868 - 32
Acadian Medical Center
Eunice, LA
Gross charge — - 33
Thibodaux Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Thibodaux, LA
Gross charge — - 34
Ochsner Medical Center Acute
New Orleans, LA
Gross charge — - 35
Sabine Medical Center
Many, LA
Gross charge — - 36
Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge — - 37
Ochsner St. Mary
Morgan City, LA
Gross charge — - 38
CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 39
Christus Shreveport-Bossier Health System
Shreveport, LA
Gross charge — - 40
Ochsner Acadia General Hospital
Crowley, LA
Gross charge — - 41
St. Charles Parish Hospital
Luling, LA
Gross 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 786) anywhere from $9,936 to $136,135 — a $126,199 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital in Sulphur; the most expensive is Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center in Lafayette. The state average sits at $43,372.
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 786 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.